try to implement the join query in Cakephp - sql

Question

i am working on a cakephp and try to implement the join . or inner join query ... what i am doing right now is this
$this->bindModel(array(
'belongsTo' => array(
'Contact' => array(
'className' => 'Contact',
'foreignKey' => false,
'conditions' => array(
'Message.user_id = Contact.user_id',
'Message.mobileNo = Contact.mobileNo'
)
)
)
), false);
return $message_details = $this->find('all', array(
'conditions' => array(),
'fields' => array('DISTINCT mobileNo')
));
this query is doing LEFT JOIN the table .. what i want is join or inner join between two tables

Answer 1

You can specify the type of join in your belongsTo configuration, as stated in the documentation. The default is left, but you can use any valid join type. Simply add 'type' => 'inner' to the configuration array, so you should get something like this:
$this->bindModel(array(
'belongsTo' => array(
'Contact' => array(
'className' => 'Contact',
'foreignKey' => false,
'conditions' => array(
'Message.user_id = Contact.user_id',
'Message.mobileNo = Contact.mobileNo'
),
'type' => 'inner' // Simply add this
)
)
), false);

Answer 2

Alternatively, you can add the joins to your query without using bingModel:
return $message_details = $this->find('all', array(
'conditions' => array(),
'fields' => array('DISTINCT mobileNo'),
'joins'=>array(
array(
'table'=>'contacts,
'alias'=>'Contact',
'type'=>'INNER',
'conditions'=>array(
'Message.user_id = Contact.user_id',
'Message.mobileNo = Contact.mobileNo'
)
)
)
));