Another solution might be (don't know how elegant this is) to add a
finderQuery in your HABTM-relation. Just copy the present habtm-query
(you'll see it with debug level 2, for example), modify it a bit and
add it to your models habtm-statement. In your case the modification
should be something like this: in the SELECT-section add
"posts_tags"."tag_link_id" AS "Tag__tag_link_id" and than modify the
tag_id the JOIN's ON-section to be a magical {$__cakeID__$} and than
your habtm-query should return the tag_link_id in the associated Tag-
model.As I said, I don't know how elegant this approach is, but it worked for me :) On Feb 21, 6:41 am, mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, got a question that I haven't yet seen an answer to... > > I have a fairly standard many:many relationship, much like the classic > Posts-Tags example. I have the standard join table, with an extra > column, for example: > > posts (id, text) > tags (id, name) > posts_tags (post_id, tag_id, tag_link_id) > > So this is where it gets unorthodox. Using the standard > hasAndBelongsToMany, when I'm iterating a list of posts I can easily > enough get the tags. But does anyone have a suggestion for *also* > getting the tag_link_id for the association? > > As an example, I'd like to take a Post, and iterate its array of Tags. > For each Tag, I want to get Tag.name but also get the tag_link_id from > the corresponding row in posts_tags. I suppose I could do a find in > posts_tags using the post_id and tag_id, but that's an extra database > query for data that I should already have. > > Any suggestions of a clever way to carry this associated data along? > > Thanks in advance. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
