Adding another field from another controller into an array - mysql

Question

Hey at the moment we have an arrray selecting all from one table (relationship) and we need to put account_name from the Accounts table in that array. How would we do so?
Our Relationship table has (id, receiver_id, sender_id, active, expiry_date). Receiver_id and sender_id both are the foreign keys for account_id.
At the moment it works fine but prints the ids of the receiver and sender, we want the account_name from Account table to be there instead.
Here is our function, view and model:
Function:
//retrieve Account Id of current User
$accountid=$this->Auth->user('account_id');
//Conditions
$conditions=array("OR"=> array(
'Relationship.sender_id' => $accountid,
'Relationship.receiver_id' => $accountid));
//Find all Invoices where receiver_id = accountid
$relationships=$this->Relationship->find('all', array(
'conditions' => $conditions));
debug($relationships);
$this->set('accountid', $accountid);
$this->set('relationship', $relationships);
}
View:
<table>
<tr>
<th>Relationship #</th>
<th>Sender</th>
<th>Receiver</th>
<th>Expiry Date</th>
<th>Status</th>
</tr>
<?php foreach($relationship as $relationships):?>
<?php
if($relationships['Relationship']['active']==1)
{
$status = 'Active';
}
else if($relationships['Relationship']['active']==0)
{
$status = 'Not Active';
}
?>
<tr>
<td align='center'><?php echo $relationships['Relationship']['id']; ?></td>
<td align='center'><?php echo $relationships['Relationship']['sender_id']; ?></td>
<td align='center'><?php echo $relationships['Relationship']['receiver_id']; ?></td>
<td align='center'><?php echo date('d.m.Y', strtotime($relationships['Relationship']['expiry_date'])); ?></td>
<td align='center'><?php echo $status ?></td>
</tr>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</table>
Relationship Model:
class Relationship extends AppModel
{
var $name = 'Relationship';
public $useTable = 'relationships';
public $primaryKey = 'id';
/*
public $hasMany = array(
'Invoice' =>
array(
'className' => 'Invoice',
'joinTable' => 'invoice',
'foreignKey' => 'invoice_id'));*/
//fix this code
public $belongsTo = array(
'User' =>array(
'className' => 'User',
'foreignKey' =>'receiver_id',
'associationForeignKey' => 'accounts_id',
));
var $validate = array(
'date' => array(
'rule' => array(
'datevalidation',
'systemDate'
),
'message' => 'Current Date and System Date is mismatched'
),
'receiver_id' => array(
'userExists' => array(
'rule' => array(
'userExists',
),
'message' => 'That username doesnt exist.'
),
),
);
function datevalidation($field = array(), $compare_field = null)
{
if ($field['date'] > $compare_field)
return TRUE;
else
return FALSE;
}
function accountExists($check)
{
$accountExists = $this->Account->find('count', array('conditions' => array('Account.id'=>$check)));
if ($accountExists == 1) {
return TRUE;
}
else
return FALSE;
}
}

Answer 1

Note it's not another field from another "controller" but rather another model.
There are a number of ways you could do this:
You could use joins on the find() method: http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/models/associations-linking-models-together.html#joining-tables
Or you could probably also use bindModel(), which I find particularly useful: http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/models/associations-linking-models-together.html#creating-and-destroying-associations-on-the-fly
Scour the cookbook! Although sometimes tedious, it really is extremely helpful. I had to hack around quite a bit before I got a decent understanding of how Cake works.