Question

I’m trying to do a Cakephp Find query, and I’m having a little where clausule:

$pending = $this->Transaction->find('all', array('conditions' => array('Transaction.amount >' => 'Transaction.recieved')));

I’d expect it would generate something like this:

SELECT * From `transactions` as `Transaction` WHERE `Transaction`.`amount` > `Transaction`.`recieved`

However, it’s producing the following SQL:

SELECT * From `transactions` as `Transaction` WHERE `Transaction`.`amount` > 'Transaction.recieved'

Notice the small difference between

`Transaction`.`recieved` 

and

'Transaction.recieved'

Why is this? My SQL query is failing now.

Answer 1

Cake has no way of knowing that you didn’t intend to use a string (i.e. it’s syntactically identical to for example array( 'Transaction.name' => 'foo' )). It works if you give the condition as a single string:

'conditions' => array( 'Transaction.amount > Transaction.received' )