Kohana 3.3 ORM table join

Question

I am looking for help specific to my question as I cant quite seem to get it right from the Kohana docs or googling.

I have 2 tables:

contents
id
uri
title
template_id

templates
id
title

I am trying to return all data for a contents row that has a matching uri.

Currently I have two models: Content and Template.

Content

class Model_Content extends ORM {
protected $_table_name = 'contents';
protected $_has_one = array('template' => array());
....

Template

class Model_Template extends ORM {

protected $_table_name = 'templates';
protected $_belongs_to = array(
    'content' => array()
);

Then in my controller:

$item = ORM::factory("Content")->get_by_uri($uri);

which points to:

$this->where("uri", "=", $uri)->find();

This returns the data from the content table correctly but how can i bring in the template name from the template table?

Thanks for help with this.

Answer 1

$item->template is all you need. And dont forget to check model for existance: if ($item->loaded()).