cakephp OR condition - php

Question

Originaly posted on cakephp Q&A but i'll put it up here in hope of getting some answers.
I have a bunch of companies that has a status of 0 as default but sometimes get a higher status. Now i want to use the high status if exists but revert to 0 if not. i have tried a bunch of different approaches but i always get either only the ones with status 0 or the ones with the status i want, never giving me status if exists and 0 if not.
Gives me only the status i specify, not giving me the ones with status 0:
'Company' => array (
'conditions' => array (
'OR' => array(
'Company.status' => 0,
'Company.status' => $status,
)
)
)
Gives me only status of 0:
'Company' => array (
'conditions' => array (
'OR' => array(
'Company.status' => $status,
'Company.status' => 0
)
)
)
Status definition and retrieving data in code:
function getCountry($id = null, $status = null) {
// Bunch of code for retrieving country with $id and all it's companies etc, all with status 0.
$status_less_companies = $this->Country->find...
if ($status) {
$status_companies = $this->Country->find('first', array(
'conditions' => array(
'Country.id' => $id
),
'contain' => array(
'Product' => array (
'Company' => array (
'conditions' => array (
'OR' => array(
'Company.status' => $status,
'Company.status' => 0
)
)
)
)
)
)
}
// Mergin $status_less_companies and $status_companies and returning data to flex application.
}
I changed the name for the models for this question just to make more sense, people are generaly frighten away when i tell them i work with cakephp for my flex application. I guess the logic to this question doesn't make sense but trust me that it makes sense in my application.
Thanks!

Answer 1

Try
'Company' => array (
'conditions' => array (
'OR' => array(
array('Company.status' => 0),
array('Company.status' => $status),
)
)
)
In the cookbook it says to wrap the or conditions in arrays if they are pertaining to the same field
http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/models/retrieving-your-data.html#complex-find-conditions

Answer 2

I'm not sure to have understood what results you expect. If you want to retrieve all records having status = 0, plus let's say the one having status = 3, you could use an 'IN' instead of an 'OR'.
In Cake, you would write it like this:
$status = 3;
$conditions = array('Company.status' => array(0, $status));

Answer 3

You can also fetch record by using following method:
put values in an array
e.g. $arr=array(1,2);
$res = $this->Model->find('all', array(
'conditions' =>array('Model.filedname'=>$arr),
'model.id' => 'desc'
));
I hope you will find answer.

Answer 4

$this->loadModel('Color');
$colors = $this->Color->find('all', [
'conditions' => [
'Color.is_blocked' => 0,
'Color.is_deleted' => 0,
'OR' => [
[
'Color.isAdmin' => $user_data['id'],
],
[
'Color.isAdmin' => 0,
]
],
]
]);