I'm working on a cakephp issue. I know how we do queries in cakephp. In certain circumstances you have to use the sql statement itself as query($sql). Below is a query to get the nearest points from a database. The SQL works fine. Now, I want to have it in cakephp-style to add the common pagination form cakephp. Unfortunately I can't find any information about how to do it. It's not easy to find information to do that in general. So I don't want to have a solution from you, I would be happy to get links how to transform a complicated query into cakephp.
Here is my codesnippet (it's working as already mentioned).
public function getRestAroundMe($lat, $lng, $radius, $limit) { // Get some data to validate login.
/* Source: http://funkjedi.com/technology/308-search-using-geolocation-data-in-mysql/ */
// Constants related to the surface of the Earth
$earths_radius = 6371;
$surface_distance_coeffient = 111.320;
// Spherical Law of Cosines
$distance_formula = sprintf('%s * ACOS( SIN(RADIANS(geolatitude)) * SIN(RADIANS(%s)) + COS(RADIANS(geolongitude - %s)) * COS(RADIANS(geolatitude)) * COS(RADIANS(%s)) )', $earths_radius, $lat, $lng, $lat);
// Create a bounding box to reduce the scope of our search
$lng_b1 = $lng - $radius / abs(cos(deg2rad($lat)) * $surface_distance_coeffient);
$lng_b2 = $lng + $radius / abs(cos(deg2rad($lat)) * $surface_distance_coeffient);
$lat_b1 = $lat - $radius / $surface_distance_coeffient;
$lat_b2 = $lat + $radius / $surface_distance_coeffient;
// Construct our sql statement
$sql = sprintf('SELECT *, (%s) AS distance FROM restaurants AS Restaurant WHERE (geolatitude BETWEEN %s AND %s) AND (geolongitude BETWEEN %s AND %s) HAVING distance < %s ORDER BY distance ASC LIMIT 0, %s', $distance_formula, $lat_b1, $lat_b2, $lng_b1, $lng_b2, $radius, $limit);
return $this->query($sql);
}
Thank you for any help