Comments on: New core behavior: Containable

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:05:05 +0000

@Sebastien: Hm, I have no idea what the problem is. I tried it here with two models, each in its own database, and it worked fine (using the latest CakePHP version from the repository). What happens, if you perform the find without the “contain” option? Does it return any data?

By: Sebastien G.

Sebastien G. — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:02:46 +0000

hi thanks I did resolve my problem... i'm still getting another problem here.... let me explain: Im tryin to find a single user in my database. I need to get his country, region and city.


$this->User->Behaviors->attach('Containable');
$user = $this->User->find('first',array(
			'conditions'=>array(
				'User.id'=>$id,
				'User.activate_account'=>1
			),
			'contain'=> array('Country','Region','City'),
));

And it gets me an error : SQL Error: 1054: Unknown column 'Country.id' in 'field list' All my relations are made correctly... I think this is because Countries,Regions and Cities are in another database... how can I contain different database in one find method ??

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:23:00 +0000

@Sebastien: I'm not sure I understood what the problem is. Did you try the following (replace the XXX with what should be "contained")?


$this->paginate = array('YourModel' => array('contain' => array(XXX)));

Hope that helps!

By: Sebastien G.

Sebastien G. — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:28:22 +0000

hmmm…. when using the ‘contain’ array in the $paginate variable, how do I attach the ‘Containable’ behavior on the paginated model ?

thks in advance

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:24:34 +0000

@Han Xu: Yes, the fields option is for the original model whereas the containable behavior is for the associated models.

Hope that helps!

By: Han Xu

Han Xu — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:25:58 +0000

Just wanted to verify something about the containable behavior:

What’s the difference between using containable and simply specifying the fields that you want in the find command?

Since I ran into this problem today, is it because the fields property only applies to the original model that the find is executed on and not the associated model?

Thanks!

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:36:57 +0000

@Terr: You are welcome :)

By: Terr

Terr — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:48:26 +0000

Thanks everyone for the clear and concise examples, both in the post and in the comments.

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By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:49:06 +0000

@Elmo: Thanks for your comment! And yes, the Containable behavior is a very useful new feature.