Re: Model Association 'chain'

Take a look in the CakePHP manual at the Containable behaviour, which
will give you the possibility to specify how deep you want to go in
your relationships when retrieving your data.
http://book.cakephp.org/view/474/Containable

Also it will make your life easier :)
Enjoy,
John

On Feb 24, 4:32 pm, p_W <paulwoolcoc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have 4 models, associated like this:
>
> Model_1 has_many Model_2
> Model_2 belongs_to Model_1
>
> Model_2 has_many Model_3
> Model_3 belongs_to Model_2
>
> Model_3 has_many Model_4
> Model_4 belongs_to Model_3
>
> In my controller, when I call `$my_var = $this->Model_1->find('all')`
> the results have Model_1 and Model_2 in them, but I would like it to
> recurse down through the whole chain...any thoughts?  Should I just do
> it manually in a model function?

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