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Asked: 2026-05-10T23:01:48+00:00

I’m creating a Q&A application in CakePHP, and I want to exclude my associations

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I’m creating a Q&A application in CakePHP, and I want to exclude my associations in some cases. Imagine the following:

I’m listing all questions on the first page using $this->Question->findAll();. Since I have the following association in my model:

public $hasMany = array('Answer' =>         array('className' => 'Answer',             'order' => 'Answer.created DESC',             'foreignKey' => 'post_id',             'dependent' => true,             'exclusive' => false,         )     );

All answers will get selected at the start page, which is not optimal. How could i do to exclude the answers in this particular method?

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  1. I quick look at the CakePHP API reveals that you’ve got an unbindModel method on the Model. So in you example you can do this:

    $this->Question->unBindModel(array('hasMany' => array(’Answer’)))

    Alternatively, you can use the Containable behaviour to only select the pieces from MySQL that you require for the current page view.

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