GROUP and COUNT() ages in CakePHP

Question

I\'m trying to group by date of birth and count based on the results, using CakePHP. Here\'s my query.

$data = $this->User->find(\'all\', array(
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Answer 1

What version of cakephp are you using? I think earlier versions of 1.2 and I believe all versions of 1.1 had some issues with group by and complex aggregate queries -- it was later resolved. That said the results look like cake is running what you are asking it to: returning a list of the ages, and the count of the users with that age.

Regardless, why run that in mysql and tie up your db server? Get the raw values, and rewrite the query to calculate the aggregates in php, and append it to the returned array.

If you must use mysql, there is always $this->query(); For complex queries its often worth it to bypass cake, but as I said, the results make sense given the query.