Kohana 3 ORM: How to get data from pivot table? and all other tables for that matter
- by zenna
I am trying to use ORM to access data stored, in three mysql tables 'users', 'items', and a pivot table for the many-many relationship: 'user_item'
I followed the guidance from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1946357/kohana-3-orm-read-additional-columns-in-pivot-tables
and tried
$user = ORM::factory('user',1);
$user->items->find_all();
$user_item = ORM::factory('user_item', array('user_id' => $user, 'item_id' => $user->items));
if ($user_item->loaded()) {
foreach ($user_item as $pivot) {
print_r($pivot);
}
}
But I get the SQL error:
"Unknown column 'user_item.id' in
'order clause' [ SELECT user_item.*
FROM user_item WHERE user_id = '1'
AND item_id = '' ORDER BY
user_item.id ASC LIMIT 1 ]"
Which is clearly erroneous because Kohana is trying to order the elements by a column which doesn't exist: user_item.id. This id doesnt exist because the primary keys of this pivot table are the foreign keys of the two other tables, 'users' and 'items'.
Trying to use:
$user_item = ORM::factory('user_item', array('user_id' => $user, 'item_id' => $user->items))
->order_by('item_id', 'ASC');
Makes no difference, as it seems the order_by() or any sql queries are ignored if the second argument of the factory is given.
Another obvious error with that query is that the item_id = '', when it should contain all the elements.
So my question is how can I get access to the data stored in the pivot table, and actually how can I get access to the all items held by a particular user as I even had problems with that?
Thanks
