I was wondering if it was possible to create a view in a database then be able to link a Model to it?
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I was wondering if it was possible to create a view in a database then be able to link a Model to it?
Yes it’s possible.
Create the view as if it were a table and make sure that it adheres to all the cake rules for creating tables. Then you can create a model, controller and view as you would with any other Table. It even comes up in the cake bake app as a normal Table.
One of the nice things I found was when dealing with pagination/sorting across a very normalised database, cake becomes almost impossible to deal with. Thus you can combine all your complex joins into one database query which then plugs nicely into cake’s world of pagination/sorting on one table which works like a charm.