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I'm having trouble composing a CakePHP find() which returns the records I'm looking for.

My associations go like this:

User ->(has many)-> Friends ,

User ->(has many)-> Posts

I'm trying to display a list of all a user's friends recent posts, in other words, list every post that was created by a friend of the current user logged in.

The only way I can think of doing this is by putting all the user's friends' user_ids in a big array, and then looping through each one, so that the find() call would look something like:

$posts = $this->Post->find('all',array(
            'conditions' => array(
                'Post.user_id' => array(
                    'OR' => array(
                        $user_id_array[0],$user_id_array[1],$user_id_array[2] # .. etc
                    )
                )           
            )
        ));

I get the impression this isn't the best way of doing things as if that user is popular that's a lot of OR conditions. Can anyone suggest a better alternative?

To clarify, here is a simplified version of my database:

"Users" table

id

username

etc

"Friends" table

id

user_id

friend_id

etc

"Posts" table

id

user_id

etc