CakePHP - paginate and sort 2nd level association

Question

I understand that this has been asked 100,000 times but I\'ve pretty much read all 100,000 replies and none of them seem to match what I\'m after. I\'ve tried every possible

Answer 1

Great answer. I used it. To try generalise it for other users :

$this->FirstLevel->bindModel(array(
    'belongsTo' => array(
        'SecondLevel' => array(
            'foreignKey' => false,
            'conditions' => array('SecondLevel.firstLevel_id = FirstLevel.id')
        ),
    )
));

$this->Paginator->settings = array(
    //'conditions' => $retrieveDataCondition,
    'contain' => array('SecondLevel')
);
$data = $this->Paginator->paginate('FirstLevel');