CakePHP Retrieving data from multiple tables with select conditions - php

Question

I am building an application using CakePHP and I am stuck on a problem retrieving data using a series of joins. In the simplified example below the join with the alias Delivery could have more than record and I want to bring back the record with a max value in a particular field in that table.
$inv_conditions = array( 'Invoice.invoice_date >=' => $DateFormatter->dateForDB($dateFrom),
'Invoice.invoice_date <=' => $DateFormatter->dateForDB($dateTo),
'Invoice.id >' => 385380 );
$join = array(array(
'table' => 'jobs',
'alias' => 'Jobs',
'type' => 'LEFT',
'conditions' => array('Invoice.job_id = Jobs.JOB_ID' )
),
array(
'table' => 'functional',
'alias' => 'Delivery',
'type' => 'LEFT'
'conditions'=> array('AND ' => array('Invoice.job_id = Delivery.JOB',
'Delivery.TYPE_STAGE = 1')
)
)
);
$invoices = $this->Invoice->find("all", array(
"fields" => array(
'Invoice.id',
'Invoice.job_id',
'Invoice.invoice_no',
'Invoice.consolidated_type',
'Invoice.customer_id_tbc',
'Invoice.invoice_date',
'Invoice.invoice_reference',
'Invoice.invoice_req',
'Jobs.PAYMENT_TYPE',
'Jobs.CUSTOMER',
'Jobs.MOST_RELEVANT_LINE',
'Delivery.DEPARTURE_DATE',
'Delivery.CNOR_CNEE_NAME',
'Delivery.TOWN_NAME',
),
"conditions" => $inv_conditions,
"joins" => $join
)
);
}
I can do this with SQL no problem as follows:
SELECT
jobs.JOB_ID,
jobs.CUSTOMER,
functional.JOB_LINE_ORDER,
functional.CNOR_CNEE_NAME,
functional.TOWN_NAME
FROM jobs JOIN functional ON
jobs.JOB_ID = 'M201409180267'
AND
functional.JOB = jobs.JOB_ID
AND
functional.TYPE_STAGE = 0
AND
functional.JOB_LINE_ORDER =
(SELECT MAX(JOB_LINE_ORDER) FROM functional
WHERE functional.JOB = 'M201409180267' AND functional.TYPE_STAGE = 0)
I have tried using the following to the conditions array:
'conditions' => array('AND ' =>
array( 'Invoice.job_id = Delivery.JOB',
'Delivery.TYPE_STAGE = 1'
'Delivery.JOB_LINE_ORDER = MAXIMUM(Delivery.JOB_LINE_ORDER)' )
)
This does bring back results but not the correct ones and the resulting SQL generated by Cake does have a select in the where clause. Is there a way of doing this when retrieving data in cake where the sql statement created will have a select in the where clause.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Bas

Answer 1

You need to use subquery to generate the select in the where clause. You can create a method in your model that does this and call it from your controller.
$subQuery = $db->buildStatement(
array(
'fields' => array(''),
'table' => $db->fullTableName($this),
'alias' => 'aliasName',
'limit' => null,
'offset' => null,
'joins' => array(),
'conditions' => $conditionsArray,
'order' => null,
'group' => null
),
$this
);
$subQuery = ' <<YOUR MAIN QUERY CONDITION (' . $subQuery . ') >>';
$subQueryExpression = $db->expression($subQuery);
$conditions[] = $subQueryExpression;
return $this->Model->find('list', compact('conditions'));