CakePHP find condition for a query between two dates

Question

I have a start and an end date in my database and a $date variable from a form field. I am now trying to query all the rows where $date is either = start/end date in the db,

Answer 1

General Example For CakePHP 2.x Query

        $_condition = array("TABLENAME.id" => $id, "TABLENAME.user_id" => array_unique($_array), 'date(TABLENAME.created_at) BETWEEN ? AND ?' => array($start_date, $end_date));
        $result_array = $this->TABLENAME->find("all", array(
            'fields' => array("TABLENAME.id", "TABLENAME.user_id", 'TABLENAME.created_at'),
            "conditions" => $_condition,
            "group" => array("TABLENAME.id"), //fields to GROUP BY
            'joins' => array(
                array(
                    'alias' => 'T2',
                    'table' => 'TABLENAME2',
                    'type' => 'LEFT',
                    'conditions' => array('TABLENAME.t_id = TABLENAME2.t_id')
                ),
                array(
                    'alias' => 'T3',
                    'table' => 'TABLENAME3',
                    'type' => 'LEFT',
                    'conditions' => array(
                        'IF(
                           TABLENAME.t3_id > 0,
                                T2.f_id = T3.f_id,
                                TABLENAME.ff_id = T2.ff_id
                            )'
                    )
                ),
            ),
            'recursive' => 0
                )
        );