Felix wrote a nice writeup of HABTM and extra data, which may be what youre after- I didnt really understand your question entirely though!
be sure to read the comments. http://www.thinkingphp.org/2006/10/26/modeling-relationships-in-cakephp-faking-rails-throughassociation/ Luke On Aug 6, 7:46 am, Jim Newfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > rtconner, > > Thank you for the reply. Now I'm not sure you understand me correctly, > or I am not sure I understand myself :P. I am aware of this method, > filtering a HABTM relationship creating a "dummy" model in the join > table. I already have something like this and it works perfectly. > > What I don't understand what you are saying is, what I tables should > be made? Are you saying that all is necessary is the join table > FansUsers and then in there do something like User.id, and Fan.id, and > The FansUsers each FansUser belongs to one user? I don't understand > how that would work because If I have user A, and he has fans B and C, > then I want fans B and C to belongs to their corresponding > information, so when I pull up the fans for user A, I get user B and > user C's information. > So if I understand you correctly, I will only need one extra table, > and will just need to fabricate a join table everytime I wish to find > the fans of a user? > > Thank you, > Jim > > On Aug 1, 8:59 am, rtconner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If I'm catching what you are doing... You have to create a FansUser > > model and add some relationships to it. > > >http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/browse_frm/thread/f23b1825050...... > > > I think.. this is what you want. I could be wrong though. > > > On Aug 1, 9:47 am, Jim Newfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Anyone? Sorry, I am just stuck. If there was some way in cake to > > > specify an alternative key it is searching for in the foreign table, I > > > think that may solve my problem. > > > Thanks. > > > > Jim. > > > > On Jul 31, 1:55 pm, Jim Newfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > Last resort post, I am stuck. What I have done is create a "friends" > > > > system in my app. Although it is mildly tricky because the friends are > > > > the same thing as users, just using an alias. > > > > > My tables look like this right now (only relevant information shown): > > > > > Users: > > > > Id > > > > > Fans_Users: > > > > fan_id > > > > user_id > > > > > Fans: > > > > id > > > > fans_info > > > > > The fan is just an alias for another user. I have the HABTM > > > > association set up fine and dandy. But what I cannot seem to get to > > > > work no matter what I try, is get the user infomation to be be pulled > > > > up with that fan. For example, User 67 has two fans, users 45 and > > > > users 46. Not when I query for User 67, his two fans are shown, users > > > > 45 and 46. BUT, I want users 45 and users 46 information to be shown > > > > as well. I have tried all sorts of combinations of hasOne/belongsTo in > > > > the fans table to get the fan to link to some user info. Even tried > > > > adding a fan_id to the user table, (which is the same thing as their > > > > id) And linking it to that. Problem is, it is matching the Fan.id to > > > > the fan.user_id which is obviously a problem. I was thinking if I > > > > could somehow modify the primary key it is searching for in the local > > > > table, it could work (instead of matching the Fan.id to the User.id, > > > > match the Fan.fan_id to the User.id) > > > > > I am really stuck here, has anyone attempting anything similar? > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > Jim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
