Gah - I'm a numpty. Kept putting the foreignKey as the column on the table I'm joining to.
As for books/authors - I took the simple approach and gave each book one author. If a book is written by John Smith and Bob Jones, then there is a row in the author table "John Smith & Bob Jones". Makes the design easier, but it does mean if I want to find all the books by Bob Jones then I need to search for "%Bob Jones%'. But I may change that design anyway, but at least I can now do all the other foreignKey look ups. Thanks, N. On Wednesday, August 1, 2012 12:10:17 AM UTC+1, Daniel Baird wrote: > > > > http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/models/associations-linking-models-together.html#belongsto > > ...is where belongsTo is documented, you should look over that. > > But -- even though I hate to be that jerk who points out problems other > than the one you asked about -- before you get too far, the data model you > describe only lets a book have a single author. If you're storing actual > real-world books in there, you probably want to support books having > multiple authors, which means a HABTM "hasAndBelongsToMany" association. > For that you need a third table authors_books, etc as described in the > cookbook. > > Good luck > > ;Daniel > > -- > Daniel Baird > I've tried going to the XHTML <bar /> a few times, but it's always closed. > > -- 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
