Using virtual fields in cakePHP 2.x

Question

I\'ve read through the documentation and struggled to understand what to do. Also, I\'ve read through the questions here on stackoverflow, and nothing that I tried helped.

Answer 1

Cool so I fixed it. Partially thanks to Brandon for pointing me in the right direction.

Because of the virtual fields limitation, I had to do the workaround.

So, in my HrEmployee model I did this:

public $virtualFields = array(
    'fullname' => 'CONCAT(HrEmployee.name, " ", HrEmployee.surname, " (", HrEmployee.jobTitle, ")")'
);

And in my User model, I changed it to this:

class User extends AppModel {
public function __construct($id = false, $table = null, $ds = null) {
    parent::__construct($id, $table, $ds);
    $this->virtualFields['fullname'] = $this->HrEmployee->virtualFields['fullname'];
}

And lastly, in my UsersController, I just changed it a bit:

$hrEmployees = $this->User->HrEmployee->find('list',
    array(
        'fields' => array("id","fullname"),
        'order' => array('HrEmployee.name ASC','HrEmployee.surname ASC')
));