im stuck while trying to count the entities and order the set of results after that.
I have connected the models to each other:
// ProductsTable
$this->belongsToMany('Users', [
'through' => 'ProductsUsers',
'join_table' => 'products_users'
]
);
// UsersTable
$this->hasMany('Products', [
'through' => 'ProductsUsers',
]
);
// ProductsUsersTable
$this->belongsTo('Users');
$this->belongsTo('Products');
By this Query, I get the Products including the users:
$products = $this->Products->find()
->contain([
'Users',
'ProductCategories'
]);
It looks like that:
Products
-> Product 1
-> User1, User2, User 3
-> Product 2
-> User1, User 3
Now I want to sort the result. But my tries fail.
I tried this:
$products = $this->Products->find()
->contain([
'Users',
'ProductCategories'
])
->select([
'users_count' => $this->Products->find()->func()->count('Users')
])->order(['users_count' => 'asc'])
->select($this->Products);
But no success. $Products->users_count includes all users.
I would be happy for any hint.
You should try Counter Cache:
It is possible though to make this work for belongsToMany associations. You need to enable the CounterCache behavior in a custom through table configured in association options. See how to configure a custom join table Using the ‘through’ Option.
This eliminates the need to compute on the fly and you have a field for user & product count in products & users table respectively.
Related
I currently have a users table and a books table, with a pivot table user_book which has user_id, book_id as well as book_tag (this can be 'H' for happy, 'S' for sad or 'A' for angry)
Against the advice of the backpack team, we are looking to have three multiselect options, which will popoulate with the 3 different types of book tags, i.e. Happy books, Sad books, and Angry books.
I currently have the following definition inside the initFields function:
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers\Admin;
class UserCrudController extends UserCrudController
{
// ....
protected function initFields()
{
// crud fields here
$this->crud->addField([
'label' => "Happy books",
'type' => 'select2_multiple',
'name' => 'books_h',
'entity' => 'books',
'model' => "App\Models\Book",
'pivot' => true,
]);
}
}
This however, does not seem to save. Any assistance is greatly appreciated
you need to make sure the the relation books_h is defined correctly in your entity as belongsToMany relationship based on laravel docs https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/eloquent-relationships#many-to-many
like so
public function books_h():
\Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Relations\BelongsToMany
{
return $this->belongsToMany(Book::class, 'user_book', 'user_id', 'book_id', 'id', 'id')->withPivot('book_tag');
}
then you need to overwrite both create and update methods to update the request for these fields to transfer it to look like so
[
1 => ['book_tag' => 'H'],
2 => ['book_tag' => 'H'],
]
before calling $response = $this->traitUpdate();
refer to this link for more info https://backpackforlaravel.com/docs/5.x/crud-operation-update#override-the-update-method
but I would recommend to use the correct way backpack team mentions https://backpackforlaravel.com/docs/5.x/crud-fields#save-additional-data-to-pivot-table even if you want to have it as 3 separate fields you can define the subfields as hidden with the value you want
Application is using CakePHP version 3.5.18
I have used the ORM to obtain a list which returns key/value pairs:
$Displays = TableRegistry::get('Displays');
$displays = $Displays->find('list', ['keyField' => 'id', 'valueField' => 'id'])->where(...)->toArray();
This works as expected. An example of debug($displays); looks like this:
(int) 36 => (int) 36,
(int) 160 => (int) 160,
(int) 149 => (int) 149,
...
In this particular application there are 3 Models which work in the following hierarchy:
Regulations (Level 1. Table name regulations)
Groups (Level 2. Table name groups)
Displays (Level 3. Table name displays)
The application has been baked so that the appropriate relationships are defined in the Table classes.
// src/Model/Table/RegulationsTable.php
$this->hasMany('Groups', [
'foreignKey' => 'regulation_id'
]);
// src/Model/Table/GroupsTable.php
$this->hasMany('Displays', [
'foreignKey' => 'group_id'
]);
// src/Model/Table/DisplaysTable.php
$this->belongsTo('Groups', [
'foreignKey' => 'group_id',
'joinType' => 'INNER'
]);
What I want to do is adjust the query defined by $displays so that the results correspond to a given array of Regulations.id. The vanilla SQL equivalent of what I'm trying to do is ... WHERE regulations.id IN (1,2,3) assuming the ID's were 1, 2 and 3.
When I read the Cake docs on Passing conditions to contain it says:
When you limit the fields that are fetched from an association, you must ensure that the foreign key columns are selected. Failing to select foreign key fields will cause associated data to not be present in the final result.
I don't understand how this is possible with find('list') because that only selects the keyField and valueField specified by the developer? In this case that would be displays.id for both.
In any case I don't understand how to write this query because in the same linked documentation it says
When using contain() you are able to restrict the data returned by the associations and filter them by conditions. To specify conditions, pass an anonymous function that receives as the first argument a query object, \Cake\ORM\Query
What would the contain() actually operate on: I assume it's Regulations but don't know how to write this.
I think you need to look at filtering data by matching, not through contains. (If I understand correctly.)
You can combine find('list') with ->matching(...):
$displays = $this->Displays->find('list')
->matching('Groups.Regulations', function ($q) use ($ids) {
return $q->where(['Regulations.id IN' => $ids]);
})
->toArray();
(Still untested)
Filtering by associated data
My application allows a user to create scenarios by linking together soe_blocks. In turn, soe_blocks refer to a variable number of soe_entries.
To build scenarios, soe_blocks are linked to the scenario and ordered by an offset. The soe_blocks can be used in many different scenarios. soe_entries can relate only to a single soe_block
I think the relationship is defined as:
scenarios belongsToMany soe_blocks through scenarios_soe_blocks
soe_blocks belongsToMany scenarios through scenarios_soe_blocks
scenarios_soe_blocks is where the offset is kept
soe_entries haveOne soe_blocks
Tables:
scenarios: id | name
data: 0, 'scenario_1'
soe_blocks: id | name
data: 0, 'soe_block_1'
1, 'soe_block_2'
scenarios_soe_blocks: id | scenario_id | soe_block_id | offset
data: 1, 0, 1, 1
2, 0, 2, 2
Models:
class ScenariosTable extends Table
{
$this->belongsToMany('SoeBlocks', [
'foreignKey' => 'scenario_id',
'targetForeignKey' => 'soe_block_id',
'through' => 'ScenariosSoeBlocks',
'joinTable' => 'soe_blocks'
]);
}
class SoeBlocksTable extends Table
{
$this->belongsToMany('Scenarios', [
'foreignKey' => 'soe_block_id',
'targetForeignKey' => 'scenario_id',
'joinTable' => 'scenarios_soe_blocks',
'through' => 'ScenariosSoeBlocks'
]);
}
class ScenariosSoeBlocksTable extends Table
$this->belongsTo('SoeBlocks', [
'foreignKey' => 'soe_block_id',
'joinType' => 'INNER'
]);
}
Controllers:
public function view($id = null)
{
$scenario = $this->Scenarios->get($id, [
'contain' => ['SoeBlocks', 'RunStatus', 'ScenarioLog']
]);
$this->set('scenario', $scenario);
}
As far as I can make out from CakePHP Doc, this is all I need. But I couldn't get the ScenarioController->view() method to return the offsets from the scenarios_soe_blocks table associated with the soe_blocks.
I tried to add ScenariosSoeBlocks into the 'contain' clause in the ScenarioController, but got the error: Scenarios is not associated with ScenariosSoeBlocks. I found an SO article that suggested I add the following to the ScenarioTable:
$this->hasMany('ScenariosSoeBlocks', [
'foreignKey' => 'scenario_id'
]);
This seems to have worked, and now I can request ScenariosSoeBlocks in my controller like this:
$scenario = $this->Scenarios->get($id, [
'contain' => ['SoeBlocks', 'ScenariosSoeBlocks', 'RunStatus', 'ScenarioLog']
]);
Which at least gets the data into the view template, but not in the single object I'm hoping for. Eventually, I want to be able to CRUD the soe_blocks along with their associated soe_entries, in an object that looks like this:
offset | soe_block_id | soe_entry_id |
I have many other questions, like how to save etc., but I figured I need to get this working first.
So, my questions for now are:
are my associations correct?
how do I retrieve all the associations to view?
are my associations correct?
The first two are, but then it should be:
soe_blocks hasOne soe_entries
soe_entries belongsTo soe_blocks
how do I retrieve all the associations to view?
By containing them, just like you did in your first example. This question seems to originate from the question how to access the join table data, which is very simple, the join table data is being set on the target table entity (Scenario or SoeBlock, depending on from which side/table you issue the query), in a property named _joinData:
$joinTableEntity = $scenario->soe_blocks[0]->_joinData;
$offset = $joinTableEntity->offset;
You can easily gather information about the data structure by dumping your entity contents:
debug($scenario);
See also
Cookbook > Database Access & ORM > Associations - Linking Tables Together
Cookbook > Database Access & ORM > Saving Data > Saving Additional Data to the Join Table
I am new to CakePHP (2.x) and am creating a post and comments feature. Everything works except I cannot figure out how to get the user's username out of the registrations (third) table (linked with "registration_id"). My associations currently look like:
class Article extends AppModel {
public $hasMany = array('ArticleComment');
public $belongsTo = array(
'ArticleRegistration' => array(
'className' => 'Registration',
'foreignKey' => 'Article.registration_id' //(doesn't work)
),
'ArticleCommentRegistration' => array(
'className' => 'Registration',
'foreignKey' => 'ArticleComment.registration_id' //(doesn't work)
)
);
class ArticleComment extends AppModel {
public $belongsTo = array('Registration','Article');
I am not sure if the associations from ArticleComment are being applied since it is being called through the Article model. I am retrieving the data by:
$this->set('articles', $this->Article->find('all', array('order' => 'Article.created desc', 'limit' => '3')));
I have tried a join and passing two separate variables for the articles and comments array but then I have to remove my associations which leads me to believe it's not proper coding.
Tables are:
articles
__________
id
registration_id
body
article_comments
__________
id
article_id
registration_id
body
registration
__________
id
username
I am fetching the information with:
$this->set('articles', $this->Article->find('all', array('order' => 'Article.created desc')));
TIA!
The generated SQL query from cakephp when you make a find() call is as follows
SELECT `Article`.`id`,
`Article`.`registration_id`,
`Article`.`body`,
`Registration`.`id`,
`Registration`.`username`
FROM `test`.`articles` AS `Article`
LEFT JOIN `test`.`registration` AS `Registration`
ON (`Article`.`registration_id` = `Registration`.`id`)
WHERE 1 = 1 LIMIT 20
So, in order to access the username you just need to write something like this in your view
$articles['Registration']['username'];
I recommend you to use the cakephp bake commands, I could make this proyect like in 10 minutes with them. And also I recommend using Netbeans as IDE, the cakephp plugin is awesome.
Here is a link to an example project that you can clone with git.
I am developing a web app for an art gallery, and I want to check I have set up the data model correctly.
I have a people table and an artists table. Some of the people are artists and some are not.
I also have a products table and each product belongs to one artist.
Below is a simplified version of the tables:
products
********
id
title
artist_id
artists
*******
id
profile
rating
person_id
people
******
id
first_name
last_name
I need to be able to retrieve the name of the artist when performing the find() method on the Product model.
Have I set up the data model correctly and if so what is the best way to retrieve the artist's name without getting lots of unwanted data?
It's possible to use CakePHP's bindModel & unbindModel to build up relations that don't rely on Cake's automagic goodness.
Since you were interested in doing the find on the Product model, I'll set out an example that can be called from the Products controller:
// unbind Artist
$this->Product->unbindModel(array(
'belongsTo' => array('Artist')
));
// bind Artist & Person using explicit conditions
$this->Product->bindModel(array(
'hasOne' => array(
'Artist' => array(
'foreignKey' => false,
'conditions' => array('Artist.id = Product.artist_id')
),
'Person' => array(
'foreignKey' => false,
'conditions' => array('Person.id = Artist.person_id')
),
)
));
// return the person
$person = $this->Product->find('first', array(
'conditions' => array(
'Product.id' => 1 // or any other condition
),
'fields' => array(
'Person.first_name',
'Person.last_name'
)
));
What's happening here?
Firstly, we unbind the Product model's relationship with the Artist model.
Secondly, we bind the Artist and Person models by explicitly defining the relationships and disabling Cake's automatic forigenKey connections.
Lastly, we do a 'first' find on the Product model and only request the 'first_name' & 'last_name' of the Person.
Each 'Product' belongs to an 'Artist' and each 'Artist' hasAndBelongsToMany 'Product'
You will also need the following table:
artists_products
****************
id
product_id
artist_id
http://book.cakephp.org/#!/view/1044/hasAndBelongsToMany-HABTM