Question

The following question can either be solved by probably changing my use of the find method in Cake PHP OR using some PHP function. I would prefer to solve it using Cake but it doesn’t matter too much. I have any array like this:

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [Model] => Array
                (
                    [id] => 14
                    [foo] => bar
                )

        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [Model] => Array
                (
                    [id] => 15
                    [foo] => something
                )

        ) .............

I just want to remove the Model index and just use the numeric one. The following function generated this array:

$arr = $this->Model->find('all', array('contain' => false ) );

I probably need to change the 'contain' part of the call. Basically, in addition to the data that appears under each Model index, I also have a second and third model and the contain = false just restricts Cake from getting data from the current model (Model).

Answer 1

If I understand your question correctly, I think CakePHP’s Set::combine function will help http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-utility-libraries/set.html#Set::combine :

$result = Set::combine($your_array, '{n}.Model.id', '{n}.Model.data');

This will result in:

 Array
 (
     [14] => Array
         (
             [foo] => bar
         )
     [15] => Array
         (
             [foo] => something
         )
 )