fetching data from multiple tables in Cakephp - php

Question

I am new in cakephp and trying my best to implement queries in cakephp.
I have this query
SELECT * FROM question join question_topic on question.question_id=question_topic.question_id join topic on topic.topic_id=question_topic.topic_id join user_topic on user_topic.topic_id=topic.topic_id where user_topic .user_id=10
I need this in cakephp.
What I have tried is this
$this->Behaviors->attach('Containable');
return $this->find('all', array(
'contain' => array(
'User',
'UserInfo.UserTopic'=>array(
'conditions'=>array('UserTopic.user_id'=>10)
),
'QuestionAndTopic.Topic','UpVoteQuestion','Answer','Answer.UserInfo'
),
'order' => 'rand()',
'recursive' => 0
));
But the query is not giving me a right results. Could you please take a look.
Question.php
class Question extends AppModel
{
public $useTable = 'question';
public $primaryKey = 'question_id';
public $belongsTo = array(
'User' => array(
'className' => 'User',
'foreignKey' => 'user_id',
'fields' => array('User.user_id','User.email','User.active')
),
'UserInfo' => array(
'className' => 'UserInfo',
'foreignKey' => 'user_id',
)
);
public $hasMany = array(
'Answer' => array(
'className' => 'Answer',
'foreignKey' => 'question_id',
),
'QuestionAndTopic' => array(
'className' => 'QuestionAndTopic',
'foreignKey' => 'question_id',
)
);
public function latestQuestions(){
$this->Behaviors->attach('Containable');
return $this->find('all', array(
'contain' => array(
'User',
'UserInfo.UserTopic'=>array(
'conditions'=>array('UserTopic.user_id'=>10)
),
'QuestionAndTopic.Topic','UpVoteQuestion','Answer','Answer.UserInfo'
),
'order' => 'rand()',
'recursive' => 0
));
}
}

Answer 1

You can use Mysql query it will works as like as cakephp query
$this->Behaviors->query('SELECT * FROM question join question_topic on question.question_id=question_topic.question_id join topic on topic.topic_id=question_topic.topic_id join user_topic on user_topic.topic_id=topic.topic_id where user_topic .user_id=10');

Answer 2

Refer this link
$options['joins'] = array(
array('table' => 'books_tags',
'alias' => 'BooksTag',
'type' => 'inner',
'conditions' => array(
'Book.id = BooksTag.book_id'
)
),
array('table' => 'tags',
'alias' => 'Tag',
'type' => 'inner',
'conditions' => array(
'BooksTag.tag_id = Tag.id'
)
)
);
$options['conditions'] = array(
'Tag.tag' => 'Novel'
);
$books = $Book->find('all', $options);
make changes as per you table and fields.hope this helps.