I have recently come to terms on how cake deletes associated models with the 'dependent' variable. This is a powerful but I feel that it is hugely inefficient when it comes to deleting (especially a hasMany relationship).
I have a few models whos afterSave and afterDelete callbacks decriment/incriment a counter (much like how counterCache is 'supposed' to be implemented). This is a huge concern because now I am updating a parent model everytime a model is deleted. Example Implementation (rough example): ForumPost (includes field `view_count`) hasMany ForumPostView (belongsTo ForumPost->dependent = true). ForumPostView::afterSave() and ForumPostView::afterDelete() both call a {model}->counterCache() that incriments/decriments the 'view_count' based on their associated foreign key. Now you can imagine what happens when I call ForumPost->del (1); and a ForumPost has about 500 ForumPostViews. It will go through and delete a ForumPost, then the callbacks will count(*) and save ForumPost.view_count ... See where I am coming from? IMO, the best way to handle this is to hack in a afterMultiDelete() callback thta I can control the functionality on a multiDelete.. Thoughts? Opinions? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---