Question

It feels like I’ve tried everything so I now come to you.

I am trying to order my data but it isn’t going so well, kinda new to Cake.

This is my code:

$this->set('threads', $this->paginate('Thread', array(
        'Thread.hidden' => 0,
        'Thread.forum_category_id' => $id,
        'order' => array(
            'Thread.created' => 'desc'
        )
    )));

It generates an SQL error and this is the last and interesting part:

AND `Thread`.`forum_category_id` = 12 AND order = ('desc') ORDER BY `Thread`.`created` ASC LIMIT 25

How can I fix this? The field created obviously exists in the database. :/

Answer 1

Try

$this->set('threads', $this->paginate('Thread', array(
        'Thread.hidden' => 0,
        'Thread.forum_category_id' => $id
    ),
    array(
        'Thread.created' => 'desc'
    )
));

I’m not a Cake master, just a guess.

EDIT. Yes, thats right. Cake manual excerpt:

Control which fields used for ordering
…
$this->paginate('Post', array(), array('title', 'slug'));

So order is the third argument.