Limit on relations in certain situations

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

I have a Company and a Photo model. A company can have multiple photos. The relation in my Company model is defined as:


'photos' => array(self::HAS_MANY, 'Photo', 'companyId')

The problem is that i sometimes want to show all photos and sometimes i only want to show 3 of them (as a preview).

I know i can get OR all by (in my view file):


foreach($model->photos AS $photo)

OR only 3 for example, by adding this to my relation:


'photos' => array(self::HAS_MANY, 'Photo', 'companyId', 

  'limit'=>3

)

But I want both, something like using $model->photos->limit(4). Is this possible?

2

Yes, something like this is possible,




$model->photos(array('limit' => 4))
3

Nice, thanks! Works perfect!

4

I’ve been looking for this for quite a while!

Thanks for the solution!