function paginate($conditions, $fields, $order, $limit, $page = 1, $recursive = null, $extra = array()) {
if(!empty($extra['passit']['sort'])){
$order = array(@$extra['passit']['sort'] => @$extra['passit']['direction']);
}
$group = @$extra['group'];

if($extra['joins'] != ”){
$joins = @$extra['joins'];
}

return $this->find(‘all’, compact(‘conditions’, ‘fields’, ‘order’, ‘limit’, ‘page’, ‘recursive’, ‘group’, ‘joins’));
}

How would we know we have to use virtual fields if we aren’t aware of them and we are trying to solve a “sorting” issue ? Read this article.

Thank you !

For this to magically work, one needs to set the value of $paginate['order'] and unset $passedArgs['sort']. Simply insert the code below after setting up $paginate nd before activating paginate()

if(isset($this->passedArgs['sort'])) {
$dsort = $this->passedArgs['sort'];
unset($this->passedArgs['sort']);
if(isset($this->passedArgs['direction'])) {
$this->paginate['order'] = array($dsort => $this->passedArgs['direction']);
} else {
$this->paginate['order'] = array($dsort => ‘ASC’);
}
}

I hope it helps.

Cheers,
Omri

I had Model 1 belongs to Model 2 belongs to Model 3. I was paginating model 1, but I wanted to sort on Model 3.

I was using bindModel in my controller and joins in my paginator variable to get out my data like this

[] => array(
[Model 1] => array(),
[Model 2] => array(),
[Model 3] => array()
)

but it still wasn’t working. So I tried your method, but the paginate override was screwing up the associations.

So I took the joins out of the variable, and moved my bindModel call into the paginate function to get my associations and it worked!

Maybe I missed something with your tutorial, but this was the only way I could get it working with my set up. Thanks again!

function hasField($fieldName) {
return parent::hasField($fieldName) || in_array($fieldName, $this->additional_fields);
}