Thanks for the reply. I actually did kind of what you said. I abstracted my objects into a chainable object and then extended that. It worked quite nicely and now I can use the useful methods in TreeBehavior to get the data I need easily.
On Jun 18, 9:40 am, delocalizer <conrad.leon...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi Greg; > Yes my experience is that if it's not easily implemented with the core > Tree behaviour then there is probably a better or at least alternative > way to do it. Once (and only once) was I determined (desperate?) > enough to have a heterogeneous model tree, and in that case I used a > separate model with Tree behaviour just for the structure, with fields > for the class name & UUID of the model object referred to by each > node. Worked quite well but had to be careful to keep the the > structure tree in sync with its models using callbacks so that adding/ > editing/deleting a model did likewise to the tree and vice versa > Sounds like it all worked out for you anyway. > > cheers mate. > > On Jun 17, 8:28 pm, Greg Baker <greg.baker....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Basically I wanted to create a chain of alternating objects. For > > example: > > > document-comment-document-comment-document-comment > > > Not really a tree I guess but I thought I could make use of some of > > the tree behaviour to help me. I've since come up with my own > > solution so I don't have to use tree. > > > On Jun 9, 7:52 am, delocalizer <conrad.leon...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > Can you describe the context of the problem? ie. what is it that you > > > want to achieve? > > > > On Jun 6, 1:38 am, Greg Baker <greg.baker....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Is it possible to use TreeBehavior where parent_id points to an id in > > > > another model, which also uses TreeBehavior? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
