Yii - join tables into 1 huge table and access all columns directly - join

Question

I have a problem with joining tables into one huge table so that all colums are accessible without nested FORs or using relations in them. Situation is like this:
cars
========
id_producer (PK)
id_model (PK)
length
weight
...
texts
============
id_model (PK)
language (PK)
text
...
Tables share 1 key: id_model
I want to join these tables like this:
SELECT *
FROM cars c
JOIN texts t ON c.id_model = t.id_model
WHERE t.language = 'english'
.. it will return 1 row for each car.
SQL is easy, Yii is not :(
I tried to do it usinq scope or relation, but never got desired output.
I want to write following:
$carsWithTexts = Cars::model()-> ... something ... ->findAll()
foreach ($carsWithTexts as $c)
{
echo $c->id_producer;
echo $c->id_model;
echo $c->id_text;
}
.. No nested FORs, no relations or scopes in the FOR.
Is this possible? Or do i have to always use following construction:
$carsWithTexts = Cars::model()-> ... relation ... ->findAll()
foreach ($carsWithTexts as $c)
{
echo $c->id_producer;
echo $c->id_model;
echo $c->relation[0]["id_text"]; // or nested for
}
I know I can use commands "with" and "together", I did, but it didnt work as I want.

Answer 1

Yii is not difficult, you just need to read the documentation and apply their examples, what you wanna do can be done like this:
I'll asume you have generated the code using Gii, so the relation name (you can check it at Car class) will be texts. Now you have two approachs to do it, the easy way:
Cars::model()->with('texts')->findAll("texts.language = 'english'");
This will return all cars with its text information, where the text has english language. I recommend you to read Relational Active Record from the official guide to learn more about this.
And the other approach is to use CDbCommand to execute an SQL command like this:
$connection=Yii::app()->db; // assuming you have configured a "db" connection
$command=$connection->createCommand();
$command->from('cars');
$command->join('texts', 't.id_model = texts.id_model');
$command->where('texts.language=:language', array(':id'=>'english'));
$rows=$command->queryAll();
This way is more SQL friendly but as you can see there are a lot of more PHP lines.