Re: Multiple Model Pagination

Here's a new tutorial that's a bit more relevant....

http://foldifoldi.com/news/?p=466

On Dec 25, 9:15 am, foldiman <vi...@vinceallen.com> wrote:
> Andrew,
> It sounds like you want to use a join in yourpaginationquery. If you
> have set up your model relationships, the joins may happen
> automagically. However, you can force the join using the 'joins'
> parameter in thepaginationquery. For example:
>
> $joins1 = array(
> 'table' => 'bug_relations',
> 'alias' => 'BugRel',
> 'type' => 'inner',
> 'foreignKey' => false,
> 'conditions' => array(
> 'BugsGarden.bug_relation_id = BugRel.id',
> 'BugRel.name LIKE' => '%' . 'beetle' . '%'
> )
>
> $this->paginate= array(
> 'BugsGarden' => array(
> 'limit' => 20,
> 'order' => array('BugsGarden.created' => 'asc'),
> 'contain' => array(
> 'Garden', 'BugRelation'
> ),
> 'joins' => array($joins1)
> )
> )
>
> If you wanted to see what Bugs were found in which
> Garden...specifically which bugs have the string 'beetle' in their
> name, you could paginate a relation table that carries which bugs are
> in which garden using ids as foreign keys. You can then get the name
> from another table....in this example a table called 'bug_relations'
> that carries info about the various bugs. The join to get the full
> names or other info is forced in the 'joins' param of thepagination
> query. Remember to include the table name in your sort keys.
>
> An example of cross database queries is also here.
>
> http://foldifoldi.com/news/?p=436
>
> I hope this helps,
> Vince
>
> On Dec 24, 12:32 pm, Andrew <and...@websitesthatdostuff.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Greetings, all,
> >      I know other people have worked on this before, but I haven't
> > been able to find a solution so far. So, the long and short of it is
> > that I've got multiple models that I want to mix into one view sorted
> > by the date created.
>
> > I've got a 'created' datetime field in the database already. I
> > understand how to paginate each of the individual database calls and
> > merging that info together, but that doesn't work with the core
> >paginationstuff as I understand it. Do you have any suggestions for
> > developing this?
>
> > Also, I'd like to keep the number of database calls down, so any
> > suggestions along those lines would be great. Thanks!
>
> > ~Andrew

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