Writing a CakePHP find Join - mysql

Question

I have a SQL query that I'm trying to convert into a CakePHP find, but I'm not sure how to structure it... could someone please provide a little assistance?
SELECT texts.*, people.id, people.first_name, people.last_name FROM texts
NATURAL JOIN (
SELECT person_id, MAX(id) AS id
FROM texts
WHERE texts.status = 'received'
GROUP BY person_id
) t RIGHT JOIN people ON people.id = t.person_id
WHERE texts.body is not null
AND texts.created > '$since'
AND person.counselor_id = '2'
ORDER BY texts.created DESC
Here is what I have
$texts = $this->find('all', array(
'recursive' => -1,
'joins' => array(
array(
'table' => 'texts',
'alias' => 't',
'type' => 'NATURAL',
'conditions' => array('t.status' => 'received')
),
array(
'table' => 'people',
'alias' => 'Person',
'type' => 'RIGHT',
'conditions' => 'people.id = t.person_id'
)
),
'conditions' => array('AND' => array('Text.body IS NOT NULL', 'Text.created > 0000-00-00 00:00:00')),
'order' => 'Text.created DESC'
));
This is the SQL it writes
SELECT Text.id, Text.person_id, Text.sid, Text.to, Text.from, Text.body, Text.status,
Text.direction, Text.owner, Text.counselor_read, Text.created, Text.modified
FROM admissionsedge_penfield.texts AS Text
NATURAL JOIN admissionsedge_penfield.texts
AS t ON (t.status = 'received')
RIGHT JOIN admissionsedge_penfield.people AS Person ON (people.id = t.person_id)
WHERE ((Text.body IS NOT NULL) AND (Text.created > 0000-00-00 00:00:00))
ORDER BY Text.created DESC
Thank you!

Answer 1

Do you have any models defined? If so, you need to share them, along with which one you would expect to perform the find because the right join is not generally used AND a Natural Join is not used.
Assuming you do not...
In the controller, run the query above with this code. {The $recordset assignment line would be where a find method would generally go}
$some_sql = 'your sql statement';
$db = ConnectionManager::getDataSource('default');
$recordset = $db->rawQuery($some_sql);
set('recordset', $recordset);
If you want to leverage CakePHP's MVC, then I suggest this query be rewritten as left joins and inner joins