Re: Access Data in Associations Efficiently

especially as beginner you should ALWAYS bake your code first using
the bake shell
"cake bake ..."
it will produce out of the box code you can already use to create/edit/
view/delete records

step two then is "adjusting" the baked code to your needs

the advantage: you can easily modify your relations (and add new
fields etc) and simply rebake it.
saves you a lot of time.

additionally you can learn a lot from the produced code, and will
probably find your answer then using the cookbook
on how to set conditions in a paginated view.

and last but not least it will help you to keep the code clean and
readable.
mark

On 29 Nov., 20:13, Jordy van Kuijk <jvank...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've managed to set up most of my associations and models in CakePHP (I'm a
> noobie).
> Now I have a very basic question. Let me explain the situation first.
> I have got a User, Pet and Post model.
> The user hasmany pets, the pet hasmany posts.
> The user can also log in.
>
> Now in my controller, I want to access the Posts of the pets of the current
> user.
> To do this, I'm using the following method, which I think is not really
> what I'm looking for:
>
> #in user.php (model)
>
> public function getPosts($uid = null){
>
> $user = $this->findById($uid);
>
> $pets = $user['Pet'];
>
> $result = array();
>
> foreach ($pets as $pet){
>
> $pett = $this->Pet->findById($pet['id']);
>
> $result = array_merge($result, $pett['MyFeed']);
>
> }
>
> return $result;
>
> }
>
> #in my controller
>
> $feed = $this->User->getPosts($this->Auth->user('id'));
>
> Not only can i not order my posts correctly (by date), but I also think
> this is not the way to go.
> Do you have any suggestions on doing this better? Isn't it possible to
> store the logged in User somewhere so that accessing it's associations is
> easier?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jordy

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