I am just trying to get some clarity on associations. I've done a little object orientated programming before and in cake it seems a little different in regard to extending objects. In my case I have a table for people, clients and suppliers. Obviously people contains basic info like name, address, phone etc. Client would contain company name, discount rate etc. Supplier would contain other supplier related info. In the past I would build a model so that the 'client' extends the 'person' class.
In cake I understand you use 'belongsTo'. So I would setup my client model with a belongsTo association (to person). So when I load up the client I can access all their 'person' (table) information as well? The only different being rather than getting the address of a client this way $data['client']['address'], I get it $data['person'] ['address']. Is this correct and is this the best method for 'extending' classes (using the belongsTo association). Thanks for any advice I may have missed here. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
