I'm also looking for some convinient way to avoid invoking "bindModel" method ..
On Jul 23, 1:52 pm, Alastair <alast...@zanginteractive.com> wrote: > Hi and many thanks for your help! > > This did work, however it doesn't make sense that I've had to do this > in the first place! It seems like accessing the parent model of a > child model is broken. I don't know if I'm doing something completely > wrong but I can access my comments records from the user perfectly > fine but am unable to access the User from a comment? > > Does anyone have any suggestions why this might be? > > Cheers, > > Alastair > > On Jul 23, 8:53 am, "mariusz.lewandowski" <lew...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I had the same issue. > > > The resolutions goes like that: in beforeFilter i invoke: > > > public function beforeFilter() { > > $this->pageTitle = 'Portfolio'; > > $this->Portfolio->bindModel(array( > > 'belongsTo' => > > array('Category'), > > 'hasMany' => > > array('Image'))); > > } > > > And then you have an access to allrelatedmodels. > > > Cheers. > > > On 22 Lip, 19:11, Alastair <alast...@zanginteractive.com> wrote: > > > > Hoping someone can suggest something here! > > > > I have a number of models, which look as follows: > > > > Comment > > > -------------- > > > > class Comment extends AppModel > > > { > > > > var $name = 'Comment'; > > > var $validate = array( > > > 'body' => array('rule' => 'notEmpty') > > > ); > > > > var $belongsTo = array( > > > 'User' => array( > > > 'className' => 'User', > > > 'foreignKey' => 'user_id', > > > ), > > > 'Post' => array( > > > 'className' => 'Post', > > > 'foreignKey' => 'post_id', > > > ), > > > ); > > > > } > > > > Post > > > ------- > > > > class Post extends AppModel > > > { > > > > var $name = 'Post'; > > > var $validate = array( > > > 'title' => array('rule' => 'notEmpty'), > > > 'body' => array('rule' => 'notEmpty') > > > ); > > > > var $hasMany = array('Comment'); > > > > } > > > > User > > > ------- > > > > class User extends AppModel { > > > > var $actsAs = array('Acl' => array('requester')); > > > var $hasOne = 'Member'; > > > var $name = 'User'; > > > > var $belongsTo = array('Group'); > > > > var $hasMany = array( > > > 'Comment' => array( > > > 'className' => 'Comment', > > > 'foreignKey' => 'user_id' > > > ) > > > ); > > > > } > > > > I'm calling the following find in my Posts controller: > > > > $comments = $this->Comment->find('all', array('recursive' => 2)); > > > > I've declared var $uses = array('Post', 'Comment','User'); at the top > > > of the posts controller. > > > > All I'm getting returned is an array of comments but not theirrelated > > > users. > > > > Can anyone suggest why this might be? > > > > Many thanks! > > > > Alastair --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---