Hi, I am still a Cake newbie, but maybe someone give me a hint on my issue. I am trying to learn cake by developing a recipe site.
There are Maincategories and Subcategories. F.e. BBQ -> (Pork, Beef, Vegetarian) Main Dish -> (Vegetarian....) A recipe can belong to different Categories, so a "Steak" could show up under "BBQ" and "Main Dish" and there under Beef. I'm planing to have a Form which reads out the Maincategories from the DB and when you click on a checkbox, the subcategories should show up (AJAX Request?) I have been thinking about the DB Design now for a while and thought I first had a solution. Than I got doubts and re-designed the tables and the models. I am now rather confused if this design is correct and would hope that someone could give some feedback. Okay, here the tables: =================== maincategories *** this table is filled manually - id - maincategory =================== subcategories *** this table is filled manually - id - subcategory - maincategory_id =================== recipes_subcategories ** this will be filled in when Add Recipe Form was send off - id - subcategory_id - recipe_id =================== recipes ** this will be filled in when Add Recipe Form was send off - id - recipename =================== My Models: ====== Recipe Model ======================================================= class Recipe extends AppModel { var $name = 'Recipe'; var $belongsTo = array( 'User' => array( 'className' => 'User' ) ); var $hasAndBelongsToMany = array( 'Subcategory' => array( 'className' => 'Subcategory', 'joinTable' => 'recipes_subcategories', 'foreignKey' => 'recipe_id', 'associationForeignKey' => 'subcategory_id' ) ); ============================================================================ ====== Subcategory Model ======================================================= class Subcategory extends AppModel { var $name = 'Subcategory'; var $belongsTo = array('Maincategory'); var $hasAndBelongsToMany = array( 'Recipe' => array( 'className' => 'Recipe', 'joinTable' => 'recipes_subcategories', 'foreignKey' => 'subcategory_id', 'associationForeignKey' => 'recipe_id' ) ); } Is this setup correct or any advice how it should look instead? Thanks a lot in advance. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---