[Solar-talk] How can i implement ordering on a _belongsToor_hasMany relationship

[Antti Holvikari]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Raymond Kolbe <rkolbe at gmail.com> wrote:
> I suppose you could write up your own method in that model. Have it get the
> related data/model, etc and pass $params to your method to do sorting.
>
> Other than that, I do not believe there are any built in ways to do what you
> want (Paul's suggestion was the closest).

You could implement __getYourRelatedModelHere() method in your record
and act based on a variable defined in the record. Like:

    $record->order_employees = 'something'; // or whatever is you
related model's name

    // This would call your magic getter and
    // fetch data according to a record property we just set
    $related = $record->employees;

I think there's even one more option. Manipulate your related object
and set it's ordering.

    $employees = $model->getRelated('employees');
    $employees->order = 'something';

    // from now on all employees are ordered by 'something'
    // when you access them from $model

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Antti Holvikari <http://anttih.com>