Re: Order associated data

That's how I would have done it. Maybe I am imagining things but I'm
sure that worked in the past. Maybe a good chance to dig through the
core and submit an enhancement on trac.

Cheers,
Adam

On Dec 31, 8:13 am, Daniel <theworldof...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, thank you for the advice - the first one works fine, but the
> second one doesn't.
>
> I've added it to the top of the Product model, just below the $name
> variable, like so:
>
> var $name = 'Product';
> var $order = 'Product.title ASC';
>
> Any idea?
>
> On Dec 30, 10:04 pm, Adam Royle <a...@sleekgeek.com.au> wrote:
>
> > Yes, you've got the categories/products thing set up as I would do it.
>
> > With ordering, you can do it both ways:
>
> > 1) Just for this association - use the 'order' key when setting up the
> > association in categories model... eg.
>
> >http://book.cakephp.org/view/78/Associations-Linking-Models-Together#...
>
> > 2) Globally - add it into the products model.
>
> > var $order = 'Product.name DESC';
>
> > Cheers,
> > Adam
>
> > On Dec 31, 7:31 am, Daniel <theworldof...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hi, me again, I hope you don't mind me coming back with another
> > > question.
>
> > > I'm not sure if I'm going about this the best way or not, so some
> > > general advice would be handy.
>
> > > I've got two models: Category and Product, Product belongs to
> > > Category, with Category having many Product (with me so far?).
>
> > > I'm using the view function within the Categories controller to list
> > > the products displayed within that category. I'm using the read()
> > > function to pull the data from the Category model, which of course is
> > > pulling with it data from the associated Product model - which I'm
> > > then just using a simple foreach ($category['Product'] as $product) {}
> > > to display within the view.
>
> > > Two questions - first, is this the best way of displaying products
> > > within a specific category.
>
> > > Second - is there anyway to change the order of the $category
> > > ['Product'] array, so that it's ordered by a field other than the id.
>
> > > Thank you
>
> > > - Daniel
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