containable

I need to paginate list of Product s belonging to specific Category (HABTM association). In my Product model I have var $actsAs = array('Containable'); var $hasAndBelongsToMany = array( 'Category' => array( 'joinTable' => 'products_categories' ) ); And in ProductsController $this->paginate = array( 'limit' => 20, 'order' => array('Product.name' => 'ASC'), 'contain' => array( 'Category' => array( 'conditions' => array( 'Category.id' => 3 ) ) ) ); $this->set('products', $this->paginate()); However, resulting SQL looks like this: SELECT COUNT(*) AS `count` FROM `products` AS `Product` WHERE 1 = 1

I'm trying to find a User's grocery items in a categorized list. The associations are Category hasMany Item hasMany User through Grocery. I'm using the Containable Behavior and it is not filtering out all other Grocery. It returns every item basically. My controller function: function showlist() { $categories = $this->Category->find('all', array( 'contain' => array( 'Item' => array( 'Grocery' => array( 'conditions' => array( 'Grocery.user_id =' => $this->Auth->user('id') ) ) ) ) )); Array that's returned: Array ( [0] => Array ( [Category] => Array ( [id] => 10 [parent_id] => [name] => Dairy

Previously I was relying on recursive, but I didn't get solution for some, then I found that Containable works fine for these. I am developing a movie review website. In that I need to show the list of movies which is related to a particular Genre. I have this below code: //example $genre = "drama"; $options = array( 'contain' => array( 'Movie', 'MoveiGenre.Genre' => array( 'conditions' => array('MovieGenre.Genre.name = "'.$genre.'"') ), 'MovieGenre.Genre.name' ), 'recursive' => 2, 'limit' => 10 ); $this->paginate = $options; $this->set('movies',$this->paginate()); The real problem starts here