Retrieving related model's data in CakePHP

Question

Here is the database tables in question:

Companies:
____________________
| id | name |
____________________

|   1| Unimex|
|   2| Solomex|

Users:
________________________
| id | name | company_id
_________________________
|   1| John | 1
|   2| Ricky| 2

Events:
_____________________________________
| id | user_id | details | date|
_____________________________________
|   1|        1| null    | 2014-04-01
|   2|        1| null    | 2014-04-15
|   3|        2| null    | 2013-04-01

What I would like to do is to retrieve events for a particular date based on company's id. What I have tried to do is the following:

$this->User->find('all', 
     array(
       'conditions' => array(
           'company_id' => CakeSession::read("Auth.User.company_id")
        ), 
       'contain' => array(
             'Event' => array(
                   'conditions' => array(
                         'Event.date' => date("Y-m-d", $tomorrow)
                    )
             )
        )
  ));

but this retrieves all of the events for the company, the date condition is not being applied. In the best case I would like to retrieve only the events for one company for a particular date. Otherwise I would get by with returning a list of users related to one company and their events for that particular date.

What would be the most efficient way to do this?

Any help or guidance is much appreciated.

Following are the relations between the tables:

Events:
    var $belongsTo = array(

        'User' => array(
            'className' => 'User',
            'foreignKey' => 'user_id'
        ));
Users:
            var $belongsTo = array(
            'Company' => array(
            'className' => 'Company',
            'foreignKey' => 'company_id',
            'dependent' => false,
        ),
    );

Here is the query that I get:

SELECT Event.id, Event.customer_id, Event.user_id, Event.project_id, Event.service_id, Event.date, Event.start_city, Event.material, Service.id, Service.company_id, Service.name, Service.service_nr, User.id, User.company_id, User.employee_nr, User.name, User.surname, User.email, User.password, User.role, Customer.id, Customer.company_id, Project.name, Project.description, Project.link_nr, Project.start_date, Project.finish_date, Project.project_nr FROM schedule.events AS Event LEFT JOIN schedule.services AS Service ON (Event.service_id = Service.id) LEFT JOIN schedule.users AS User ON (Event.user_id = User.id) LEFT JOIN schedule.customers AS Customer ON (Event.customer_id = Customer.id) LEFT JOIN schedule.projects AS Project ON (Event.Project_id = Project.id) WHERE 1 = 1

The problem right now is that the company id is not taken into concideration, and all of the events are being returned no matter what date it is.

Answer 1

try this code:

$this->Event->find('all', 
     array(
       'conditions' => array(
           'User.company_id' => CakeSession::read("Auth.User.company_id"),
           'Event.date' => date("Y-m-d", $tomorrow)
        ), 
       'contain' => array('User')
  ));

Answer 2

I’ve tried this solution and it works for me.

I made all tables with small letters according to cake conventions like companies, events and users.

This is Event Model

class Event extends AppModel {

    var $actsAs = array('Containable');

    public $belongsTo = array(
        'User' => array(
            'className' => 'User',
            'foreignKey' => 'user_id',
            'conditions' => '',
            'fields' => '',
            'order' => ''
        )
    );
}

This is controller Event class

$tomorrow = '2013-04-01';

$this->Event->find('all', 
 array(
   'conditions' => array(
       'date' => date("Y-m-d", strtotime($tomorrow)),
    ), 
   'contain' => array(
         'User' => array(
               'conditions' => array(
                     'User.company_id' => CakeSession::read ('Auth.User.company_id')
                )
         )
    )

));

This will give you

 SELECT `Event`.`id`, `Event`.`user_id`, `Event`.`details`, `Event`.`date`, `User`.`id`, `User`.`name`, `User`.`company_id` 
    FROM `schedule`.`events` AS `Event` 
    LEFT JOIN `schedule`.`users` AS `User` ON (`Event`.`user_id` = `User`.`id` AND `User`.`company_id` = 2) 
WHERE `date` = '2013-04-01'

I hope this will work for you. Thanks