I don't know how to do this.
I have a table of supliers, with documents, and each document has a type of document with names.
Supliers
id
name
Documents
id
file
suplier_id
document_type_id
upload_date
Document_types
id
name
supliers->hasMany('documents')->orderBy('upload_date')
documents->belongsTo('document_types')
I need to retrieve the collection of documents by the names of the types of documents... something like this:
supliers->hasMany('documents')->orderBy('document_types.name')->orderBy->('upload_date')
Thanks a lot!!
Assuming that you have defined all your model relationships properly, something like this should work:
$suplier->documents()
->select('documents.*')
->join('document_types', 'document_types.id', '=', 'documents. document_type_id')
->orderBy('document_types.name')
->orderBy('documents.upload_date')
->get()
While I don't know the full scope of this work, one thing I'd like to point out is that if the document types are a pre-defined set of types, it doesn't necessarily have to be on a separate table. It could just be an enum stored on the documents table itself which improves both querying and performance.
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I've created migrations and also their relationships. looks like I'm using polymorphic relations, because in one table, I could have the value of one model or i could have the value of another model. as you might guess, I have something like this
ID Mappable_type Mappable_id value
Mappable_type could be one or many other models. mappable_id will be appropriate id from that model. I needed this because I'm creating dynamic form builder and that's how I designed a database.
Now I need to fetch some records from 5 tables together, so I gotta use joins. the table where I have mappable_type is at the third place from those 5 joins. now What should I do also to only fetch data from these 5 joins that have specific model type that is in that morph table? I'm doing something like that for now:
$final = Dynamic::join('dynamic_properties_values','dynamic_properties_values.dynamic_id','=','dynamic.id')
->join('dynamic_properties_mapping','dynamic_properties_mapping.id','=','dynamic_properties_values.mapping_id')
->where('dynamic_properties_mapping.mappable_type','=','App\Driver')
->get();
As you see, I have written by hand something like
"App\Driver"
. It doesn't matter I have written it by hand or had it saved into a variable and than used it here. WHat really bothers me is that let's say when I was inserting data into these morph tables, Model got saved as "App\Driver". what if I make a mistake and when fetching with joins, I write something like App\Http\Driver? or what If I changed the location of the model itself in my code project?
What's the best practice not to make those kind of errors by the time my project reaches huge amount of users?
Using Laravel 4.2 & MySQL.
I have an applications table with an id and a fit_score_id column, and a fit_scores table with an id column. It's a basic "belongs to" relationship.
The following code:
$query = Application::join('fit_scores', 'applications.fit_score_id', '=', 'fit_scores.id');
$collection = $query->get();
...produces a collection of Application models with the id property set to the value of the fit_score_id. What am I doing to cause this?
I should note that it is necessary to do this join rather than simply using eloquent relations, because I'm going to want to order the results by a column on the fit_scores table. I don't believe this is possible using Eloquent without an explicit join.
The best way to solve this is by chaining the join method to a select method as following:
Application::select('*', \DB::raw("applications.id as appid"))
->join('fit_scores', 'applications.fit_score_id', '=', 'fit_scores.id')
->get();
Explained: The solution simply suggest that instead of thinking to prevent the behavior of overwriting the first id with the joined id, we can hook into the primary selection query (before joining) and change the label of the id column into something else (in this case 'appid'). By doing so, we end up with both the id of the parent table being labeled 'appid' and the id of the joined table being labeled 'id' again while they lives together on the final result.
I was able to find a possible solution using this answer:
Laravel 4 - JOIN - Same column name
Basically, since Laravel does not automatically prefix column names with table_name. for joined tables, we need to manually work around it by aliasing any conflicting column names in joins. Adding this select statement to my query did it:
->select(DB::raw("applications.*, fit_scores.*, applications.id as id"))
It depends on what you need but probably you can achieve it using eager loading. In case you need to mix joins and eager loading check this out. http://www.jmilan.net/posts/eager-loading-joins-in-laravel
I have to call the $model->groupBy(?allcols?) function with all columns as a param.
How should I do this?
Edit: I have all Columns as an Array, so i can't pass them like 'col1','col2',...
I'm asking this because i have this poblem (github) and i found out, that there the prob is on Line 119.
I tried it manually like col1,col2 which worked, but it should by dynamically for all models.
I found this snippet, to get all cols from the current table as an array, but i can only pass a String.
Ok, if I'm understanding your edit correctly, you've got an array of column names you wish to group by. If $model is the name of your query, I'd recommend just using a foreach loop and appending each field:
foreach($allcols as $col){
$model->groupBy($col);
}
$model->get();
There is no such function for grouping all columns but you may use groupBy(col1, col2, ...), for example, if you have a posts table then you may use:
DB::table('posts')->groupBy('col1', 'col2')->get();
Or using Eloquent Model, for example a Post model:
Post::groupBy('col1', 'col2')->get();
If all you're trying to do is get rid of duplicate records (which is all that groupBy(all) would do as far as I can envision), you could also just use $model->distinct() instead. However, unless you add a select() to exclude the id field, you're going to wind up with the full recordset with no grouping, as by definition the id is unique to each record and thus won't collapse across records by either manner.
For example I have the following tables in my database:
People
Groups
And in the People table I have the following columns:
Name
Birthdate
Group
In the Groups table I have the following columns:
Name
Colour
Now I want to fetch results from my database to make a list of all the People.
So I would use this:
$this->set('people', $this->Person->find("all"));
And obviously in my view I would loop through the returned array and display it. Now I also want to find out for each person in the list what Colour and Group name they are (retrieved from the groups table).
How would I go about this in CakePHP.
First make sure your model relationships are defined. Second, you might want to consider using "id" fields for your related tables (I assume you did and maybe just did not include them in your original questions table definitions).
And yes, run debug($this->Person->find("all")) as Elwhis noted to see what your array is dumping out.
And if this is a mission critical application, be sure to use containable instead of recursive to prevent taxing queries to your db.
You have to set the recursive attribute. But I guess it should work with the default value. Put this line in your controller debug($this->Person->find("all")) and check whether the data doesn't already contain you desired group information.
If not, try setting $this->Person->recursive = 1; before calling the find() function
For more information about recursive: http://book.cakephp.org/view/1063/recursive
I am trying to create a Class-Inheritance design for products.
There is the base table that contains all the common fields. Then for each product type there is a separate table containing the fields that are for that product type only
So in order to get all the data for a product I need to JOIN the base table with whatever table that correlates to the product_type listed in the base table. Is there a way to make this query join on the table dynamically?
Here is a query to try to illustrate what I am trying to do:
SELECT * FROM product_base b
INNER JOIN <value of b.product_type> t
ON b.product_base_id = t.product_base_id
WHERE b.product_base_id = :base_id
Is there a way to do this?
No, there's no way to do this. The table name must be known at the time of parsing the query, so the parser can tell if the table exists, and that it contains the columns you reference. Also the optimizer needs to know the table and its indexes, so it can come up with a plan of what indexes to use.
What you're asking for is for the table to be determined during execution, based on data found row-by-row. There's no way for the RDBMS to know at parse-time that all the data values correspond to real tables.
There's no reason you would do this to implement Class Table Inheritance. CTI supports true references between tables.
You're instead describing the antipattern of Polymorphic Associations.
Make 2 queries:
First select < value of b.product_type > and then use it in the second one (the one that you have, but replace < value of b.product_type > with the result from the first one).
No. There would be little point even if it were possible, as the query optimiser would not be able to make a plan without knowing anything about the right- hand side of the join.
You need to construct the query using concatenation or similar, but make sure that you only use a valid table name to avoid injection attacks.
You can create a procedure that takes the table name as an argument and constructs a dynamic-SQL query. But it's probably easier to do this in your server-side code (PHP). But rather than make it a variable (and as suggested vulnerable to injection attacks), create separate classes for the different join combinations. Use another class (like a dispatcher) to determine the correct class to instantiate.