Question

Is there a way to select all fields from a specific table in CakePHP?
So something like:

$this->Model1->find('first',
                    array('fields' => 'Model2.*',
                          'conditions' => 'Model1.id = Model2.Model1_id'),
                          'contain' => array());

I’ve been looking all over the place and can’t find anything on this.
I’m kind of hoping that I don’t have to type out all of the fields for Model2 🙁

Forgive me for my nubishness, I just started learning Cake. Many thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You don’t. The syntax you have (meaning the Model2.* part) will work, as will defining no fields at all. By default, they’re all returned.

I don’t know, though, whether the find call as you have it will work. It seems awkward at best to be executing a find on Model1 in order to get data from Model2. As Henri mentioned in his comment, better to do the find on Model2.