@Joaquin: Yes, that’s an additional advantage.

@Abhimanyu: Yes, it is sometimes difficult to remember all those method names, and so it helps if you dig into the source from time to time ;-)

@bfw: Yes, that’s a useful approach if you are not only interested whether there are records but also in the respective records.

It’s worth to note, however, that the difference is only when reading the code, because both methods work the same way – hasAny works by calling find(‘count’).

if ($aData = $this->Model->find($conditions)) {
…
// here is used $aData
…
}

this way i do not have to check if there are any records and then get them

The two statements are *not* semantically the same. find( ‘count’ ) returns an integer, and thus requires you to run it against a boolean conditional to get a true / false.

The other returns a true / false. They are patently different in return types and thus *cannot* be semantically equal without additional code.

“if the number of records that meet the conditions is greater than 0 then do something”.

or

“if there are any records that meet the conditions then do something”.

And its often difficult to remember all the function names :p

hasAny is not only meaningful but shorter ;)

Nice