Re: Table associations the CakePHP way

2006-12-26 Thread phirschybar
you can ask for just the specific fields but if the other fields aren't too heavy (in terms of bytes of returned content) I don't think there is a reason to do so. I would avoid using a custom query unless you absolutely need it. You are able to specify the fields you want returned without using

Re: Table associations the CakePHP way

2006-12-26 Thread phpjoy
hey adrian, the table names are right, and work great with scuffold. it works without scuffold too, i just want to make it more efficient. on some of the models i used hasmany, belongsto, and hasone. i get the table category and layout dumped, the problem is that i get all of the information fro

Re: Table associations the CakePHP way

2006-12-26 Thread Adrian Godong
First you'll have to create correct associations for your Models (if you don't know how or too lazy to read the manual, ask again). Second, try dumping the whole thing you got from the Model->findAll or findBy... using debug($[modelname]->[functionname]); You'll see that accessing category.name

Table associations the CakePHP way

2006-12-26 Thread phpjoy
I have a controller, and I want to fetch information from tables. With scaffold, it works wonderfully.. However I wanna load the information smartly for my app. These are my tables: section: id name field1 field2 layout_id category_id category: id name field3 field4 field5 field6 layout: id na