CakePHP: find associated data with contain - mysql

Question

I'm reading the CakePHP documentation but I'm not sure if I need to use some other methods than find. Example:
in my controller I want to provide a filtered list of Orders where the state field of the related table OrderStates is "Open":
$orders = $this->ItemsDeliveryNotes->Orders->find('list', [
'limit' => 200,
'conditions' => ['Orders.order_state.state' => 'Open'],
'contain' => ['OrderStates']
]);
but it says it doesn't find the column order_state.
Here the definition of the table Orders:
Creation
CREATE TABLE orders (
id int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
customer_id int(11),
orderNumber varchar(255) NOT NULL,
orderDate date,
order_state_id int(11),
PRIMARY KEY (id),
KEY order_state_id (order_state_id),
CONSTRAINT orders_ibfk_1 FOREIGN KEY (customer_id) REFERENCES customers (id) ON DELETE NO ACTION ON UPDATE NO ACTION,
CONSTRAINT orders_ibfk_2 FOREIGN KEY (order_state_id) REFERENCES order_states (id) ON DELETE NO ACTION ON UPDATE NO ACTION
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=1;
Entity
class Order extends Entity
{
protected $_accessible = [
'orderNumber' => true,
'orderDate' => true,
'customer_id' => true,
'order_state_id' => true,
'customer' => true,
'order_state' => true,
'items' => true
];
}
Table
public function initialize(array $config)
{
parent::initialize($config);
$this->setTable('orders');
$this->setDisplayField('orderNumber');
$this->setPrimaryKey('id');
$this->belongsTo('Customers', [
'foreignKey' => 'customer_id'
]);
$this->belongsTo('OrderStates', [
'foreignKey' => 'order_state_id'
]);
$this->hasMany('Items', [
'foreignKey' => 'order_id'
]);
}
public function buildRules(RulesChecker $rules)
{
$rules->add($rules->existsIn(['order_state_id'], 'OrderStates'));
$rules->add($rules->existsIn(['customer_id'], 'Customers'));
return $rules;
}
and OrderStates:
Creation
CREATE TABLE order_states (
id int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
state varchar(255) NOT NULL,
badge varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (id)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=1 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8
Entity
class OrderState extends Entity
{
protected $_accessible = [
'state' => true,
'badge' => true
];
}
Table
public function initialize(array $config)
{
parent::initialize($config);
$this->setTable('order_states');
$this->setDisplayField('state');
$this->setPrimaryKey('id');
}
The column order_state is accessible within Orders and I also added the related table (OrderStates) to the contain option. What I still miss?

Answer 1

Here a working syntax to use:
$orders = $this->ItemsDeliveryNotes->Orders->find('list', [ 'limit' => 200 ])
->contain('OrderStates')->where(['state' => 'Open']);

Answer 2

#mark the issue in your conditions for contained entity. please do confirm which cakephp version you are using.
Here is the example to use the conditions for contained table
Passing Conditions to Contain
// Prior to 3.5.0 you would use contain(['Comments' => function () { ... }])
$query = $articles->find()->contain('Comments', function (Query $q) {
return $q
->select(['body', 'author_id'])
->where(['Comments.approved' => true]);
});
Note: Make sure you have included use Cake\ORM\Query; in namespaces section.
For the more detials you can refer to documentation here. https://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/orm/retrieving-data-and-resultsets.html#passing-conditions-to-contain
For your situation it could be something like this.
$orders = $this->ItemsDeliveryNotes->Orders->find('list', [ 'limit' => 200 ])->contain('OrderStates', function (Query $q) { return $q->where(['state' => 'Open']); });