Add in your Post Model
class Post extends AppModel {
var $order = 'CategoriesPost.postorder';
}
Anyway I wouldn't do it like so. I would just add an order field on the Post
model. It's easier.
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 1:24 AM, ashok.b <email2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hello Cake Gurus, here's my problem:
>
> Table1: Posts
>
> id - int
> title - varchar
>
> Table2: Categories
>
> id - int
> name - varchar
>
> HABTM JoinTable: categories_posts
>
> id - int
> post_id - int
> category_id - int
> postorder - int
>
> As you can see, the join table contains a field called 'postorder' -
> This is for ordering the posts in a particular category. For example,
>
> Posts: Post1, Post2, Post3, Post4
> Categories: Cat1, Cat2
> Ordering:
> Cat1 - Post1, Post3, Post2
> Cat2 - Post3, Post1, Post4
>
> Now in CakePHP,
>
> $postpages = $this->Post->Category->find('all');
>
> gives me a array like
>
> Array
> (
> [0] => Array
> (
> [Category] => Array
> (
> [id] => 13
> [name] => Cat1
> )
> [Post] => Array
> (
> [0] => Array
> (
> [id] => 1
> [title] => Post2
> [CategoriesPost] => Array
> (
> [id] => 17
> [post_id] => 1
> [category_id] => 13
> [postorder] => 3
> )
> )
> [1] => Array
> (
> [id] => 4
> [title] => Post1
> [CategoriesPost] => Array
> (
> [id] => 21
> [post_id] => 4
> [category_id] => 13
> [postorder] => 1
> )
> )
>
> )
> )
> )
>
> As you can see [Post], they are not ordered according to
> [CategoriesPost].postorder but are ordered according to
> [CategoriesPost].id. How can I get the array ordered according to
> [CategoriesPost].postorder?
>
> The Queries from Cake's SQL Log are:
>
> SELECT `Category`.`id`, `Category`.`name` FROM `categories` AS
> `Category` WHERE 1 = 1
>
> SELECT `Post`.`id`, `Post`.`title`, `CategoriesPost`.`id`,
> `CategoriesPost`.`post_id`, `CategoriesPost`.`category_id`,
> `CategoriesPost`.`postorder` FROM `posts` AS `Post` JOIN
> `categories_posts` AS `CategoriesPost` ON
> (`CategoriesPost`.`category_id` IN (13, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32,
> 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49,
> 50, 51, 52) AND `CategoriesPost`.`post_id` = `Post`.`id`)
>
> What I am looking for is how to make cake put a Order By
> CategoriesPost.postorder in that second SELECT SQL Query.
>
> Thanks in advance for your time :)
>
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