Why not BELONGS_TO through?

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My database was modeled like this (reducing tables into its keys):


City

- id

- region_id

Region

- id

- country_id

Country

- id

I would like to do something like that:




$city = City::model()->with('region', 'country')->findByPk(1);

echo "$city - {$city->region->acronym}, {$city->country->name}";

But I can’t figure out how to build the ‘[font=“Courier New”]country[/font]’ relation, since it would be a BELONGS_TO with [font=“Courier New”]‘through’ => ‘region’[/font] option.

Any help or idea would be greatly appreciated.

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I haven’t tried it yet, but give it a try


$city = City::model()->with(array('region' => array('with' => 'country')))->findByPk(1);

Inspired from:

http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/index.php/topic/23985-nested-relational-criteria-in-search/

And maybe test with simple BELONGS_TO relations (city/region and region/country), and use


echo "$city - {$city->region->acronym}, {$city->region->country->name}";
3

also:




$city = City::model()->with(array('region', 'region.country'))->findByPk(1);

should work