I am working with CakePHP 1.3 version for search functionality using Search Plugin.
I have three models:
- Demo,
- Country
- State
Demo
has two foreign keys, country_id
and state_id
. State
has the foreign key country_id
.
What I am doing is, I have search form which have country & state drop down which fetch all data from countries & states table. When i search any of country from dropdown & submit the form it will show me below error. If i search using only state dropdown i get the correct result.
When I execute the search query, I get the error
'Column '
country_id
' in where clause is ambiguous'
My query is:
SELECT `Demo`.`id`, `Demo`.`demo2`, `Demo`.`desc`, `Demo`.`subject`, `Demo`.`gender`, `Demo`.`country_id`, `Demo`.`state_id`, `Demo`.`image_url`, `Country`.`id`, `Country`.`name`, `State`.`id`, `State`.`country_id`, `State`.`description` FROM `demos` AS `Demo` LEFT JOIN `countries` AS `Country` ON (`Demo`.`country_id` = `Country`.`id`) LEFT JOIN `states` AS `State` ON (`Demo`.`state_id` = `State`.`id`) WHERE `country_id` = 2
Model relationships in Demo table:
var $belongsTo = array(
'Country' => array(
'className' => 'Country',
'foreignKey' => 'country_id',
'conditions' => '',
'fields' => '',
'order' => ''
),
'State' => array(
'className' => 'State',
'foreignKey' => 'state_id',
'conditions' => '',
'fields' => '',
'order' => ''
),
);
The controller query to fetch all Country in dropdown is:
$country=$this->Country->find('list'); //just display the list of country in dropdown
The query search the data from all fields except Country
(country_id
), because it will not know which country_id
it is looking for from table Demo
or table State
. I need the country_id
from the demo table to get the correct result.