I got all the way through the booklink tutorial and got it all to work except getting the authors to show up with the books I got the part where I get the Author drop down when creating the book and can see them properly stored in the database with the books

I am using the tutorial from: http://www.akelos.org/docs/tutorials/booklink

Seems like something wrong in the app/views/book/show.tpl Did I not put the _{Author} line in the right place?

<div class="show">
    <?php  $content_columns = array_keys($Book->getContentColumns()); ?>
    <label>_{Author}:</label> <span class="static">{book.author.name?}</span><br />
    {loop content_columns}
        <label><?php  echo  $text_helper->translate($text_helper->humanize($content_column))?>:</label> 
        <span class="static"><?php  echo  $book->get($content_column) ?></span><br />
    {end}
</div>

If it matters, here is my PHP version info php -v

PHP 5.2.4 (cli) (built: Sep 18 2007 08:50:58)

Copyright (c) 1997-2007 The PHP Group

Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Zend Technologies

I am running on Fedora 7

Thanks!

Author1 book book Author2 book [...]

? the same two models seen from the other side.

in the controller:

$this->authors =& some author-finder including the Books.

in the view:

{loop authors}

and in this loop

{loop author.books}

clearer? wrong direction?

order by a foreign attribute (author.name) is not supported by the paginator-helper.

you have to do it by hand. modify the getFinderOptions and sortable_link

as always: if you find a pattern, share it!

I would like to see a refactored paginator that works more on the level of a model, as a model-extension, because a paginator only restricts the result-set of a find*

a paginator-helper then would only spit out the usual links