AFAIK you can't use variable after LIMIT so u can't get your result
set in one call. I would make model function which at first will
retrieve visiblecomments number and then use it as value for 'limit'
key in options array for find function.

On 9. Feb, 03:18 h., freespac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have to tables, "stories" and "comments".  They have a relationship
>
> story has many comments.
> comment belongs to story.
>
> In stories, I have a field named "visiblecomments"  (yes it's long ;)
>
> I want to return only a number of comments (that is defined in
> "visiblecomments") in every story.
>
> Example:
>
> Story 1:
>
> id: 1
> title: this is first story.
> visiblecomments: 2
> has 4 comments.
>
> Story 2:
> id: 2
> title: this is second story
> visiblecomments: 1
> has 5 comments.
>
> I want it to return the following:
>
> 2 comments from the first story and 1 comment from the second story.
>
> hope that made any sense..
>
> -thanks
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