Question

In CakePHP, I have two tables, Countries & Networks. They have a HABTM relationship and are joined by countries_networks.

I’m trying to get all countries from the countries table where the ‘name’ field in Networks = ‘o2’

I’ve realised I can’t do this using a basic find(), so I’ve been experimenting with the containable behaviour. I have managed to restrict the returned data, but it looks as though ‘containable’ doesn’t exactly work as I want. Heres my code:

$countries = $this->Country->find('all', array('contain' => array(
                                'Network' => array(
                                'conditions' => array('Network.name =' => "o2"),
    )
    )));

This query however returns ALL countries, and the Network.name if its ‘o2’. What I really need to do is return ONLY the countries that have a Network.name of ‘o2’, and no others.

Can anyone help? Thanks.

Answer 1

Your query returns you exactly what your ask.
Try to select from Network.

$countries = $this->Country->Network->find('first', array(
    'conditions' => array('Network.name' => "o2"),
    'contain' => array('Country')
));

$countries = $countries['Country'];