Newbie Q - controller/view code for mixed query

[eluser]Nick_MyShuitings[/eluser]
[quote author="osci" date="1308540960"]

I never tried to give a solution to the topic. I "hijacked" because I read Nick_MyShuitings's post and as I read the same in another of his recent posts I couldn't resist arguing about it. Sorry @vinofilus.

And this discussion is completely what I was hoping for... its the first time its ever occurred after one of my "I don't like AR abstraction" comments... (also, those underscore magic functions are very interesting... time to rerun through my list of "impossible" SQL to produce with AR.)