CakePHP 2.x containable + pagination for nested model - php

Question

I have a problem with nested model pagination using containable in Cake...
I've got three models: Category, CompanyCategory, Company and there association is like this
Category hasMany CompanyCategory
CompanyCategory belongsTo Category
CompanyCategory belongsTo Company
Company hasMany CompanyCategory
I get data using contain, as shown below:
$options = [
'conditions' => ['Category.slug' => $slug],
'contain' => [
'CompanyCategory.Company.CompanyAddress'
]
];
return $this->find('first', $options);
Everything works properly, until I wanted to paginate the nested model - Company. I use CategoriesController with show method, which renders the view with the selected category and associated companies (Company hasMany Categories and Category hasMany Companies).
I've tried something like this:
$this->Paginator->settings = [
'limit' => 1,
'order' => [
'id' => 'asc'
],
'contain' => array('CompanyCategory.Company')
];
$data = $this->Paginator->paginate('Category.CompanyCategory.Company', array('Category.slug LIKE' => $slug));
$this->set('category', $data);
But this didn't work for me :(
Any suggestions / help?

Answer 1

If you define Category has a hasAndBelongsToMany relation, it would be easy for you. Thus you created a new Model called CompanyCategory, i assume there is a reason..
You can try this-
$this->Category->bindModel(
array(
'hasAndBelongsToMany' => array(
'Company'
)
)
);
$this->Paginator->settings = array(
'conditions' => array(
'Category.slug' => $slug
),
'limit' => 1,
'order' => array(
'id' => 'asc'
),
'contain' => array(
'Company'
)
);
I assume your relation table name is categorys_companies.... If not then you need take different approach

Answer 2

Finnaly I resolve my problem using
$this->Paginator->settings = array(
'limit' => 2,
);
$this->Paginator->paginate('Category.CompanyCategory.Company');
I forgot to write that I use method from CategoriesController, not Companies.
But now another problem blocked me... I use TranslateBehaviour, and data which I get has no translations...
Any idea? I googled a lot, but couldn't find any satisfactory solution.