Error when using custom query in cakephp? - php

Question

I have using cakephp for my website. And i use sql server 2012 with it.
I have confused that when i use:
$this->set('types',$this->Manager->query('select * from product_types'));
to get the array of all my product types
the return array is:
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[id] => 1
[name] => hoa my pham
)
)
[1] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[id] => 2
[name] => hoa my
)
)
)
Why has the [0] instead of [product_types]????

Answer 1

Please follow the documentation and tutorials available.
Then you will be able to just use
$this->set('managers', $this->Manager->find('all'));
for the very same thing - using a clean approach with wrapper functions and a sql server datasource.
For SqlServer there should be a datasource available, for example:
https://github.com/cakephp/datasources/blob/2.0/Model/Datasource/Database/Sqlsrv.php

Answer 2

This is from the CakePHP documentation:
To use the model name as the array key, and get a result consistent with that returned by the Find methods, the query can be rewritten:
$this->Picture->query("SELECT * FROM pictures AS Picture LIMIT 2;");
which returns:
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[Picture] => Array
(
[id] => 1304
[user_id] => 759
)
)
[1] => Array
(
[Picture] => Array
(
[id] => 1305
[user_id] => 759
)
)
)
So you need:
$this->set('types',$this->Manager->query('select * from product_types as Product_Types'));
Source: http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/models/retrieving-your-data.html
P.S.:
This syntax and the corresponding array structure is valid for MySQL
only. Cake does not provide any data abstraction when running queries
manually, so exact results will vary between databases.