Hi All, Apologies if this has been answered multiple times before but I can't seem to find a post which answers this question in full rather than just a subset of it.
Problem: An employee has zero or more managers and at the same time, might be managing zero or more employees. Example: CEO ---> Directors ----> Managers ---> Individual contributors. What is the proper way to model this? It sounds like it is a HABTM relationship but I'm confused how to model this for a generic case. In the example above, I was initially thinking that I might need 3 relationship tables to model this (CEO_Directors, Directors_Managers, etc.) each containing employee IDs. But what if suddenly they created a position of Vice Presidents who reports to the CEO? Or worse yet, what if their positions just changed names? When I hadn't even considered using CakePHP and was just thinking about the database, I had initially planned to just add a column "Reports To" in the employee table which would contain the employee ID of that employee's manager. I could then recursively build out the relationships between all employees (I think). Any direction or help would be greatly appreciated! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
