Question

This problem has me very stumped and I hope you can help me out.

I have a model in CakePHP (2.x) that references another model like this:

<?php
App::uses('MyClass2', 'Model');
class MyClass1 extends AppModel {

Later in the class, I call find('all') on MyClass2:

$params = array(
    'MyClass2.user_id' => $user_id
);
$my_class2 = new MyClass2();
$data = $my_class2->find('all', $params);

But instead of returning only the rows that match $user_id, it returns every row in the database. I can confirm that $user_id is being saved in the database correct and is initialized correctly, but it still always returns all the data instead of only the rows that match $user_id. What should I do to get the data from MyClass2 inside of MyClass1 that only matched the correct $user_id?

Answer 1

You need to add the conditions array in params 🙂

$params = array(
    'conditions' => array(
        'MyClass2.user_id' => $user_id
    )
);