Cakephp 3: Contain is not working with hasMany tables

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1

I have a table Users that has many Questions. For ex.:

UsersTable:
id, name, email

QuestionsTable:
id, user_id, question

When i use find query using UsersTable that “contain” Questions, then it doesn’t make any join in SQL.

But when i use find query using QuestionsTable that “contain” Users, then does join and builds sql as required.

I don’t understand why?

My query is:

$UsersTable = TableRegistry::get(‘Users’);
$user_questions = $UsersTable ->find(‘all’ , [ ‘conditions’ => [‘Users.id’ => 1] ]) ->contain([‘Questions’]);

Regards.

2

You have to defined 2 associations:

Users => hasMany Questions
Questions => belongsTo Users

3

It will be necessary to see your relationship configuration in the UsersTable initialize.

The documentation is very weak, I resolved a bunch of these types of problems by just messing around with those settings and refreshing my browser a lot.

The query you have defined should return the Users record with ID of one, and I assume you have a hasMany relationship to Questions, so all the questions with Questions.user_id = 1 returned in an array. Is that what you want?

4

Thank you for your response.

It is now working as required. Yes, I was needed to fetch all questions of a user with specific user id.

The associations in Tables was already properly built up like:
Users => hasMany Questions
Questions => belongsTo Users

Documentation for Cakephp 3.x is not so proper as in cakephp 2.x which creates trouble to understand.

5

in your usertable.php page write that code

public function initialize(array $config) {
parent::initialize($config);

    $this->table('user_table_name');
    $this->displayField('id');
    $this->primaryKey('id');

    $this->hasMany('Questions', [
        'foreignKey' => 'user_id',
        'joinType' => 'LEFT'
    ]);

}

In Questiontable.php write down that code

public function initialize(array $config) {
parent::initialize($config);

    $this->table('question_table_name');
    $this->displayField('id');
    $this->primaryKey('id');

    $this->belongsTo('User', [
        'foreignKey' => 'user_id',
        'joinType' => 'LEFT'
    ]);

}

I think it’s better example

6

I have used two tables with relation as below

$this->hasMany(‘Images’, [
‘foreignKey’ => ‘user_id’
]);

    $this->belongsTo('Users', [
        'foreignKey' => 'user_id',
        'joinType' => 'INNER'
    ]);

Used field in user add.ctp
echo $this->Form->control(‘images.file’);

image not saved ti image table.Provide solution to save multiple images to image table.

7

Hi,

Am unable to solve hasMany with contain problem. My Query is not concatenated with join. Pls Help…