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    copied!<p>This is an interesting problem, I was faced with this same issue a few years ago when I was building a dating site.</p> <p>What you need to do is have (in my case) 4 sets of relations:</p> <ul> <li>Forward relations</li> <li>Forward relations (unapproved friendships)</li> <li>Backward relations</li> <li>Backward relations (unapproved friendships)</li> </ul> <p>This will ensure you pull all necessary data, use <code>containable</code> wherever possible.</p> <pre class="lang-php prettyprint-override"><code>var $hasAndBelongsToMany = array( 'ForwardRelation' =&gt; array( 'className' =&gt; 'User', 'joinTable' =&gt; 'friends_users', 'foreignKey' =&gt; 'user_id', 'conditions' =&gt; array('approved' =&gt; '1'), 'associationForeignKey' =&gt; 'friend_id', ), 'ForwardRelationUn' =&gt; array( 'className' =&gt; 'User', 'joinTable' =&gt; 'friends_users', 'foreignKey' =&gt; 'user_id', 'conditions' =&gt; array('approved' =&gt; '0'), 'associationForeignKey' =&gt; 'friend_id' ), 'BackRelation' =&gt; array( 'className' =&gt; 'User', 'joinTable' =&gt; 'friends_users', 'foreignKey' =&gt; 'friend_id', 'associationForeignKey' =&gt; 'user_id', 'conditions' =&gt; array('approved' =&gt; 1) ), 'BackRelationUn' =&gt; array( 'className' =&gt; 'User', 'joinTable' =&gt; 'friends_users', 'foreignKey' =&gt; 'friend_id', 'associationForeignKey' =&gt; 'user_id', 'conditions' =&gt; array('approved' =&gt; '0') ) ); </code></pre> <p>Add a behavior with some <code>afterFind()</code> magic, and you will be golden!</p> <p>This is my function to find friends:</p> <pre class="lang-php prettyprint-override"><code>function getFriends( $userid, $search = null ) { $Friends = ClassRegistry::init( 'FriendsUser' ); $Friends-&gt;bindModel( array( 'belongsTo' =&gt; array( 'User' =&gt; array( 'className' =&gt; 'User', 'foreignKey' =&gt; 'user_id' ), 'Friend' =&gt; array( 'className' =&gt; 'User', 'foreignKey' =&gt; 'friend_id' ) ) ) ); $data = $Friends-&gt;find( 'all', array( 'fields' =&gt; array( 'DISTINCT FriendsUser.friend_id', 'FriendsUser.user_id', 'FriendsUser.approved', 'User.id', 'User.username', 'Friend.id', 'Friend.username' ), 'conditions' =&gt; array( 'AND' =&gt; array( 'OR' =&gt; array( 'Friend.username LIKE' =&gt; '%' . $search . '%', 'User.username LIKE' =&gt; '%' . $search . '%' ) ) ), 'contain' =&gt; array( 'User', 'Friend' ), 'order' =&gt; array( 'User.username ASC', 'FriendsUser.approved DESC' ) ) ); $friendlist = array(); $i = 0; foreach ( $data as $datum ) { foreach ( $datum as $key =&gt; $value ) { if ( in_array( $key, array( 'User', 'Friend' ) ) ) { if ( $value['id'] == $userid ) { $friendlist[$i]['Me'] = $value; } else { $friendlist[$i]['Friend'] = $value; } } } $i++; } $matches = array(); foreach ( $friendlist as $friend ) { if ( stripos( $friend['Friend']['username'], $search ) !== false ) $matches[ $friend['Friend']['id'] ] = $friend['Friend']['username']; } asort( $matches ); $i = 0; $newmatches = array(); foreach ( $matches as $key =&gt; $match ) { $newmatches[$i]['Tag']['caption'] = $match; $newmatches[$i]['Tag']['value'] = $key; $newmatches[$i]['Tag']['image'] = $this-&gt;getProfileImage( $key ); $i++; } return $newmatches; } </code></pre>
 

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