Containable Behavior

Posted on | November 23, 2008 | No Comments

Cakephp Beta 1.2 RC has a new core behavior called Containable. This behavior is used to setup relationship between models. Instead of using bindable, I am now using the Containable behavior, which makes things easier. You can leave the recursive = -1 out of your codes when using this behavior.

Get it working

Define $actAs variable in your model:

$actAs = array('Containable');

or on-the-fly

$this->Feature->Behaviors->attach('Containable');

Get your results

$this->paginate = array('contain' => array('Attachment.filename', 'User'),'limit' => 20, 'order' => array('Feature.created' => 'DESC'));

What this code does is filter only fields specified in “contains”, retrieves only 20 records “limit”, in order specified by “order”.

Replace $this->Feature->recursive = -1; by setting the contain to false

$this->paginate = array('contain' => false,'limit' => 20, 'order' => array('Feature.created' => 'DESC'));

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