Cake magic can only work in a HABTM situation when both records already exist. For what it's worth I still think you're heading for a few headaches as previously stated.
How are you going to structure your forms so it allows you to both select from existing telephone numbers or add multiple new ones? If covering the Americas, UK or possibly the World how do you provide a big enough select list that allows a person to chose from already entered numbers? Do you allow for spaces in your numbers, if so and you want to preserve a unique list of numbers is 0191 111 2222 different from 0191112222 and 0191 1112222. I think in this instance there are so very few people with the same number that a hasMany relationship with the odd person having the same number is not a major concern. Just my tuppence Paul. Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. 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 To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.