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Akhil F
Akhil F

Reputation: 7740

How do I return models related to a related model?

I have 3 models.

Webcast and Tag are associated witha HABTMA association.

Webcast and Host are associated with a hasMany relationship (Webcast has many Host).

When I do a Tag->find I get Tag and Webcast models, however I want to get all 3. How can I go about that?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 35

Answers (2)

Rymn
Rymn

Reputation: 186

If your query is using $this->webcast->find then you'll get everything your looking for, except you can't search 'TAG' without joining the tables before the query. If you want to search 'TAG' which I recommend in this situation then your need to go into your Tag model and create relationships there too.

Tag HABTM Webcast

should do it. If you're not getting host then try 'recursive' => 2 in your query.

$this->Tag->find('all');

OR

$this->Tag->find('all', array('recursive' => 2));

Upvotes: 1

Salines
Salines

Reputation: 5767

From docs

The recursive property defines how deep CakePHP should go to fetch associated model data via find(), and read() methods.

http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/models/model-attributes.html#recursive

Upvotes: 0

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