cakePHP: access data in model where are hidden

Question

I have database of library and I would like to display Book detail. Document hasMany Articles and Article hasAndBelongsToMany Authors. In ArticlesController I can see Authors of Articles, but I do not know how to access them in DocumentsController.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 23 '13 at 19:37

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You need to set the property $recursive to something like 2

$this->Document->recursive = 2;
$this->Document->find('all');

OR you can also use containable behavior

$this->Document->Behaviors->load('Containable');
$this->Document->find('all', array('contain' => array('Article' => 'Author')));

answered Nov 23 '13 at 19:37

Guillermo Mansilla

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Thanks a lot, I had it a little bit different and it finally works. – Andrew Nov 23 '13 at 19:43
Containable is the suggested behavior. Recursive gets **all** associated data, including much garbage data you don't need. – Oldskool Nov 23 '13 at 21:11
Yeah, that's why I gave both options – Guillermo Mansilla Nov 24 '13 at 00:29

cakePHP: access data in model where are hidden

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