I'm playing with a simple model where
Section hasMany Catalogitem hasMany Item belongsTo User and naturaly the other way- User hasMany Item belongsTo Catalogitem belongsTo Section. I'm trying to get count how many items I have per section for user.id=1 - which is a very simple sql query (with 2 joins)- SELECT sections.id, count(*) FROM sections JOIN catalogitems ON sections.id=catalogitems.section_id JOIN items ON catalogitems.id=items.catalogitem_id WHERE user.id=1 GROUP BY sections.id But I'm not sure how to use cake for that: $this->Section->find('all' , array( 'conditions' => array('Item.user_id' => 1)) ) I'm getting an error that 'Item.user_id' is an Unknown column. Can anyone shed light regarding what's the problem, and how do I get the find() to return a count of items per section for user.id? Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. 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