cakephp-model

I am trying to bind 3 models in cakephp.The relation is as follows Member hasMany Member_Organaization Member_Organisations belongs to Organaization i try to use $this->Member->find('all',conditions) it just show me only data upto hasMany association. I understand that the Member model is not related directly to the organization one. but how can we do it? My code is as follows: $this->Member->bindModel( array( 'hasMany'=>array( 'NpoMember' =>array( 'className' => 'NpoMember', 'foreignKey' => 'member_id', 'conditions' => array('NpoMember.status' => 'Active'), ) ) ) ); $this->NpoMember-

Is it possible for certain models to be in one database and other models in another (using the same connection)? I have a number of read-only tables that I want shared between multiple installations of my system. Other tables need to be per-installation. For the sake of example, let's say users is the shared table, and posts is per-installation. In one schema (let's call it "shared") we have the users table, and in another schema ("mycake") is posts . I've been able to get the User model reading from the other database by creating a new database connection which points to the shared database

Is it possible to define global conditions for Model ? I have 2 Models: User and Student . In database both of them are using table users but each student has set parent_id to its owner (which is set in the same table) while each user has parent_id set to Null . When I use for example $this->find('all'); in Student Model I want to force Cake to return only those records from database table users where parent_id != Null . So the question is - can I define somehow global conditions in the Model? Something like that: public $conditions = array('Student.parent_id !=' => Null); Use beforeFind You

My debug value is set to 2 , and it's displaying all the queries, except the one I need. I have an Items controller method that is calling this method in the User model ( Item belongsTo User ): function add_basic($email, $password) { $this->create(); $this->set(array( 'email' => $email, 'password' => $password )); if($this->save()) { return $this->id; } else { return false; } } I have confirmed that $email and $password are being passed into the function correctly (and are populated with legit data). email and password are the names of the fields in the User model. I have also confirmed that

I have a registration form in which users can fill in two email address (email1 & email2). Marketing's requirement is that they need to be unique (unique as in if we had 10 users, then there would be 10*2=20 unique email address). The system is already built on cakephp, so what I'd like to know is, is there something similar to the isUnique feature (unique in one field) that can do this right out of the box? Or am I doomed to code this myself? Thanks in advance. EDIT: built on Richard's example, this worked for me: function checkUnique($data, $fields) { if (!is_array($fields)) { $fields =