On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Tan Cheng <davidtan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > A very basic question, I naively believe that there's no dumb > question... > > I'm creating a database, and the users are categorized into teachers > and students, obviously, one student has and belongs to many teachers > and vice versa, so there is a HABTM relationship between students and > teachers. > > So in cake, which is the better approach? > > 1) Put them in the "users" table and use a field to distinguish > students and teachers, but <b>how do I describe the HABTM relationship > between them? Do I need to create a "students_teachers" table?</b>
You could add 2 columns to your users table, model & foreign_key. The students & teachers tables can also have a user_id column to associate back the other way. > 2) Create three tables, "students", "teachers", and a > "students_teachers" table. Yes, do that as well. These are not mutually exclusive. -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php