CakePHP has and belongs to many conditions with NOT EXISTS - mysql

Question

$conditions = Array
(
[table] => products_pages
[alias] => ProductsPage
[type] => inner
[foreignKey] =>
[conditions] => Array
(
[0] => ProductsPage.product_id = Product.id
)
)
I'm trying to set up NOT EXISTS conditions, like the following SQL statement:
SELECT * FROM products_pages,products
WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT id
from products_pages
where products_pages.product_id = products.id)
So basically select any product that doesn't exist in the products_pages table.
What is the proper way to format that SQL statement for CakePHP and replace it here:
[conditions] => Array
(
[0] => (What's the proper way to insert above SQL here?
)
Would really appreciate your help guys, I've been trying to figure this out for about 5 hours with no luck. Thanks!

Answer 1

You can always use query if you don't find the way to do it with CakePHP:
http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/models/retrieving-your-data.html#model-query
In this case security wouldn't be compromised as you are not using any input.
Anyway, something simple would be just to do it in more than one step:
//selecting the products in the productcs_pages table
$productsWithPages = /* query to get them*/
//getting an array of IDs
$productsWidthPagesIds = Hash::extract($productsWithPages, '{n}.Product.id');
//doing the NOT IN to select products without pages
$productsWithoutPages= $this->Product->find('all',
array('conditions' =>
array( 'NOT' => array('Product.id' => $productsWidthPagesIds )
)
);