Im new to cakePHP and the whole table relations concept is very confusing!
I have 2 tables, competencies and competenceRatings. competencies stores a list of names with ids.
competencies
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id
name
And users can select various competencies from this table and rate them and their ratings are stored into competenceRatings table.
competenceRatings
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id
competence_id
user_id
rating
I want to be able to get the names of competencies for which a user have NOT made any ratings into competenceRatings table. i.e., I need list of names from competencies table for which there are no entries in comptenceRatings table(for given user_id).
I tried competencies->hasMany->competenceRatings, competenceRatings->belongsTo->competencies relations.
$competencies = $this->Competence->CompetenceRating->find('all',array('CompetenceRating.user_id' => $userId,'CompetenceRating.competence_id !=' => 'Competence.id'));
But no use!
Does this result require any other relations? Or can i just join tables using joins condition in find query?
Thanks.