CakePHP paginate and order by

Question

It feels like I\'ve tried everything so I now come to you.

I am trying to order my data but it isn\'t going so well, kinda new to Cake.

This is my code:

Answer 1

There are a few things to take note of in paginate with order. For Cake 3.x, you need :

1) Ensure you have included the fields in 'sortWhitelist'

$this->paginate = [

        'sortWhitelist' => [
            'hidden', 'forum_category_id', 
        ],


    ];

2) for 'order', if you put it under $this->paginate, you will not be able to sort that field in the view. So it is better to put the 'order' in the query (sadly this wasn't stated in the docs)

$query = $this->Thread->find()
->where( ['Thread.hidden' => 0, 'Thread.forum_category_id' => $id, ] )
->order( ['Thread.created' => 'desc'] );

$this->set('threads', $this->paginate($query)