Re: Complex Search

Having just found this... you are right it is exactly what I need.
Thanks for this pointer.

As for my code... I have spent the day tidying it up as each book has 2
many to many relationships ( Categories and Authors ) so it was getting
in a mess.

On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 14:35 -0500, cricket wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Steve <stephen@foundfamily.co.uk> wrote:
> > I have solved this by overriding the paginate and paginateCount methods
> > in my Book model.
>
> Instead of that, you could use Containable.
>
> And you don't need to have the else block in the index action. Declare
> $paginate as a class var, then add the 'conditions' array when
> required.
>
> public $paginate = array(
> 'limit' => 12,
> 'order' => array('Book.created' => 'desc'),
> 'contain' => array('Author')
> );
>
> function index()
> {
> $this->Book->recursive = 1;
>
> if ($this->search)
> {
> $this->paginate['conditions'] = $this->Book->searchConditions($this->search));
> }
>
> $this->set('books', $this->paginate('Book'));
> }
>

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