I'm using CakePHP 3.9 and i have the following code
$contactsByGroup = $this->Contacts->find('all', [
'fields' => [
'ContactsCategories.id',
'ContactsCategories.name',
'COUNT(Contacts.id)',
],
'contain' => [
'ContactsCategories'
],
'group' => [
'Contacts.contacts_category_id'
]
])->autoFields(true);
But is returning me the following:
SELECT
ContactsCategories.id AS `ContactsCategories__id`,
ContactsCategories.name AS `ContactsCategories__name`,
COUNT(Contacts.id) as `count` AS `COUNT(Contacts__id) as `count``,
Contacts.id AS `Contacts__id`,
Contacts.first_name AS `Contacts__first_name`,
Contacts.last_name AS `Contacts__last_name`,
Contacts.social_reason AS `Contacts__social_reason`,
Contacts.document_id AS `Contacts__document_id`,
Contacts.phone AS `Contacts__phone`,
Contacts.address AS `Contacts__address`,
Contacts.location AS `Contacts__location`,
Contacts.created AS `Contacts__created`,
Contacts.modified AS `Contacts__modified`,
Contacts.user_id AS `Contacts__user_id`,
Contacts.contacts_category_id AS `Contacts__contacts_category_id`
FROM
contacts Contacts
LEFT JOIN
contacts_categories ContactsCategories
ON ContactsCategories.id = (Contacts.contacts_category_id)
GROUP BY
Contacts.contacts_category_id
What i want is count the amount of registries based on the relationship contacts_categories
I can make a query but is more clean and efficient doing with find.
SELECT
count(*),
contacts_categories.id,
contacts_categories.name
FROM
contacts
LEFT JOIN
contacts_categories
ON contacts_categories.id = contacts.contacts_category_id
GROUP by
contacts.contacts_category_id
$query = $this->Contacts->find('all')->contain(['ContactsCategories'])->group('contacts_category_id');
$registries= $query->count();
Not tested, but something along these lines should help you find the right solution. It basically finds all related Contacts to ContactsCategories (If you set up foreign keys and data structures as the cake convention says to do so), groups them by the contacts_category_id and then counts them