Re: Deep associations

I suggest you take a look at the Containable behaviour in the CakePHP
manual at:
http://book.cakephp.org/view/1323/Containable

as well as how to join models at:
http://book.cakephp.org/view/1039/Associations-Linking-Models-Together#Joining-tables-1047

and last but maybe more important, how to use complex find conditions,
at:
http://book.cakephp.org/view/1017/Retrieving-Your-Data#Complex-Find-Conditions-1030

The above information should give you the necessary tools to implement
your count of items per user.
Enjoy,
John

On May 30, 7:44 am, azv <a...@keebali.com> wrote:
> I'm playing with a simple model where
>
> Section hasMany Catalogitem hasMany Item belongsTo User
>
> and naturaly the other way-
>
> User hasMany Item belongsTo Catalogitem belongsTo Section.
>
> I'm trying to get count how many items I have per section for
> user.id=1 - which is a very simple sql query (with 2 joins)-
>
> SELECT sections.id, count(*)
> FROM sections
> JOIN catalogitems ON sections.id=catalogitems.section_id
> JOIN items ON catalogitems.id=items.catalogitem_id
> WHERE user.id=1
> GROUP BY sections.id
>
> But I'm not sure how to use cake for that:
>
> $this->Section->find('all' , array( 'conditions' =>
> array('Item.user_id' => 1)) )
>
> I'm getting an error that 'Item.user_id' is an Unknown column.
>
> Can anyone shed light regarding what's the problem, and how do I get
> the find() to return a count of items per section for user.id?

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