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PODatabase Pick List in CakePHP?
 

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    <p>I'm designing the database for a mental health agency where the clinicians choose from a list of pre-formatted choices for a lot of categories (employment status, housing status, relationship status, etc.) In a previous iteration of the database, we used a pick list similar to one described on stackoverflow <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/86992/how-do-you-manage-pick-lists-in-a-database">here</a> to avoid creating tables for each of these lists.</p> <p>We're planning on using CakePHP as the framework for the new build and I'm concerned about CakePHP's "automagic" ability to save and display data easily not playing nicely with a database that uses the pick list structure. I'm considering creating a separate table for each list to take advantage of CakePHP's automagic.</p> <p>Does anyone have experience implementing a pick list in CakePHP or have a suggestion regarding an alternative design approach?</p> <p>EDIT: I'm trying to implement this using two tables -</p> <pre><code>value_lists list_values ----------- ------------------------------- id | list_name id | list_value | value_list_id </code></pre> <p>Here is my model code:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php class BirthplaceCounty extends AppModel { var $name = 'BirthplaceCounty'; //The Associations below have been created with all possible keys, those that are not needed can be removed var $useTable = 'list_values'; var $displayField = 'list_value'; var $hasMany = array( 'Registration' =&gt; array( 'className' =&gt; 'Registration', 'foreignKey' =&gt; 'birthplace_county_id', 'dependent' =&gt; false, 'conditions' =&gt; array('BirthplaceCounty.value_list_id' =&gt; '8'), 'fields' =&gt; '', 'order' =&gt; '', 'limit' =&gt; '', 'offset' =&gt; '', 'exclusive' =&gt; '', 'finderQuery' =&gt; '', 'counterQuery' =&gt; '', ) ); </code></pre> <p>}</p> <p>My issue seems to be that no matter what conditions I try -</p> <pre><code> $this-&gt;BirthplaceCounty-&gt;find('list'); or $this-&gt;BirthplaceCounty-&gt;find('all'); </code></pre> <p>always returns all of the records in list_values. The SQL that CakePHP is producing is</p> <pre><code>SELECT `BirthplaceCounty`.`id`, `BirthplaceCounty`.`list_value` FROM `list_values` AS `BirthplaceCounty` WHERE 1 = 1 </code></pre> <p>No matter how I change the condition, the WHERE clause is always 1 = 1. How do I write the conditions correctly?</p> <p>EDIT 2: Ok - I realized that setting conditions in the $hasMany variable won't affect the find() function. I created a new function that works.</p> <pre><code>function getActual() { $conditions = array('BirthplaceCounty.value_list_id = 5'); return $this-&gt;find('list', compact('conditions')); } </code></pre> <p>Is the only way to do this by overloading the find() function?</p>
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