CakePHP 3 : select data from multiple table

Question

I have two tables services and service_requests. service_requests table has foreign key service_id referencing services table.

I have to select data from services and service_requests where services.id = service_requests.service_id ORDER BY COUNT(service_requests.service_id) DESC

This is what I'm doing in my controller

$servicesTable = TableRegistry::get('services');
$featuredServices = $servicesTable->find('all')
                          ->select(['ServiceRequests.service_id', 'count' => 'COUNT(ServiceRequests.service_id)'])
                          ->select($servicesTable)
                          ->join([
                            'table' => 'service_requests',
                            'alias' => 'ServiceRequests',
                            'conditions' => ['Services.id' => 'ServiceRequests.service_id'],
                          ])
                          ->group('service_id')
                          ->order(['Count' => 'DESC'])
                          ->limit(10);


        $this->set('featuredServices', $featuredServices);

and printing in view as

if (!empty($featuredServices)):
  foreach($featuredServices as $service):
     echo $service->title;
  endforeach;
endif;

But it is not working. Also printing echo $featuredServices; only prints the sql string SELECT........ Both tables are not associated with the controller I'm using in.

EDIT 2

What I want a query like this

SELECT ServiceRequests.service_id AS `ServiceRequests__service_id`, COUNT(ServiceRequests.service_id) AS `count`, Services.id AS `Services__id`, Services.service_category_id AS `Services__service_category_id`, Services.title AS `Services__title`, Services.description AS `Services__description` FROM services Services INNER JOIN service_requests ServiceRequests ON Services.id = ServiceRequests.service_id GROUP BY service_id ORDER BY Count DESC LIMIT 10

This sql query is working fine when running in phpMyAdmin and this query is generated by debug($featuredServices) of

$featuredServices = $servicesTable->find('all')
                  ->select(['ServiceRequests.service_id', 'count' => 'COUNT(ServiceRequests.service_id)'])
                  ->select($servicesTable)
                  ->join([
                      'table' => 'service_requests',
                      'alias' => 'ServiceRequests',
                      'conditions' => ['Services.id' => 'ServiceRequests.service_id'],
                    ])
                  ->group('service_id')
                  ->order(['Count' => 'DESC'])
                  ->limit(10);

This is only generating sql query on debug. How can I execute this so that I could get the result instead of sql query.

Answer 1

This can be achieved by the table association

Your ServicesTable :

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

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

   ======== use this line ===============

    $this->hasOne('Requests'); // for one to one association

  ======== OR =============== 

   $this->hasMany('Requests'); // for one to many association

   ============ more specific ==========

    $this->hasMany('Requests', array(
        'foreignKey' => 'service_id'
    ));     
}

Your RequestsTable :

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

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

   ========= add this line ============

   $this->belongsTo('Services');

   ========= or more specific ============

    $this->belongsTo('Services', array(
        'foreignKey' => 'service_id',
        'joinType' => 'INNER',
    ));

}

Now in controller method :

 public function test()
 {
    $this->loadModel('Services');       

    $query = $this->Services->find('all', array('contain' => array('Requests')))->limit(10);

    //debug($query);
    $services= $query->toArray();
    debug($services);
    $this->set('services', $services);
} 

for more specific info about find query, please see the link http://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/orm/retrieving-data-and-resultsets.html

and more information about table associations, See link: http://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/orm/associations.html