Hi Lynda, I think the association you need is a hasMany since book can have many questions. I assume a question is specific to a book, so the question model would have a belongsTo association with book.
However you have two there pointing to the same table so it's a bit tricky. What is the purpose of the questions and req_questions? Maybe there's another way to achieve the same result? Can you simply put a value (1 or 0) in the questions table to denote whether it's a normal quesiton or req_question? Also as an aside, the primary key for "books" and "questions" should be "id" in both cases not "book_id" and "question_id" It took me a while to understand this as well. :-) Cake expects the primary key of every table to be "id" and you can then refer to it from other tables as "modelname_id" e.g. You could have a table "notes" to add notes about each book. This table would have a field "book_id" which cake automatically links to the "id" field in "books" if you setup a belongsTo association in the "notes" model and a hasMany association in the "books" model. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
