Re: Most concise and complete Recursive Association Support in CakePHP?

Thanks for the replies so far. To answer the question about relations,
this would be something like the following:

A User as has a Profile, a Rank and multiple Ratings and multiple
Tags, which are indexed in a lookup table called Tagtaxonomy. These
Ratings are in turn related to Posts.

I would like to retrieve a user along with its rank, average rating
and concatenated list of tags. It's possible to do this in one SQL
query, but the way I set a test scenario up, Cake does it by issuing
multiple SELECT statements on multiple tables.

Hope this clarifies my initial question a bit more.

On Nov 27, 6:56 pm, John Andersen <j.andersen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Please specify how your Users, Profiles, Ranks and Ratings are
> related, then we may better be able to assist you ;)
> Enjoy,
>    John
>
> On Nov 26, 6:48 pm, mensch <majesteitmen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I've asked this question on StackOverflow as well, but I thought I
> > might some more answers closer to the source. I'm currently mucking
> > about with CakePHP, deciding if I'll use it in an upcoming web
> > application.
>
> > The problem is, I've got several tables which at some point share
> > relevant data with each other. If I were to write all the code myself
> > I would use an SQL query using rather a lot of different joins and
> > subqueries. But from what I understand CakePHP only supports joins
> > between two tables.
>
> > So for example, I have Users, Profile, Rank, Rating tables and I want
> > to get the profile, rank and ratings of one particular user. CakePHP
> > will do the trick by using multiple, separate SELECT statements. But
> > this would be possible using one query with multiple joins.
> > Performance is expected to be quite important, so not being too
> > wasteful with SQL queries is a major perquisite.
>
> > I've found two hacks (<a href="http://lloydhome.com/blog/development/
> > 2009/recursive-association-support-cakephp-12">one behaviour</a> and
> > <a href="http://mark-story.com/posts/view/using-bindmodel-to-get-to-
> > deep-relations">one using bindModel</a>) and <a href="http://
> > stackoverflow.com/questions/806650/in-cakephp-how-to-retrieve-joined-
> > result-from-multiple-tables">a StackOverflow thread</a>.
>
> > I'm undecided whether to use the behaviour or the bindModel hack.
> > Could anybody shed any light as to what is the best approach - viz.
> > what integrates best in the overall CakePHP structure (are features
> > like pagination still available)? Or is there another approach which
> > is ultimately better. The aformentioned SO thread mentions a method
> > using containables.

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