I have the following in my User model;
public $hasMany = array(
'MetaUser' => array(
'className' => 'MetaUser',
'fields' => array( 'meta_key', 'meta_value' )
)
);
...should I also define a belongsTo relationship from the MetaUser
model, or is this necessary when it's being manipulated from the Users
controller?
On Jun 4, 6:49 pm, calvin <cal...@rottenrecords.com> wrote:
> Did you define the relationship between User and MetaUser?
>
> i.e. in the User model:
>
> $hasMany = array('MetaUser' => array());
>
> Because both, your approach and vekija's, should work.
>
> On Jun 4, 9:48 am, mwaterous <m...@watero.us> wrote:
>
> > Well my last question here turned out to be between keyboard and
> > chair, so hopefully this isn't quite as silly a question!
>
> > I am learning Cake and building a custom user authentication system
> > (who isn't?). I am trying to use two separate tables to store data,
> > the User Model table as parent which stores only mission critical data
> > (login, password, email, created, etc), and a MetaUser model table
> > which is built around key value pairs (meta_id, user_id, meta_key,
> > meta_value).
>
> > Upon registration I have two pieces of meta information I would like
> > to store - the activation code and an optin for receiving
> > communication from site admins. I have built the forms as instructed
> > by the Cake Book in order to use saveAll() in my Register action. The
> > problem is that this results in the following array:
>
> > Array
> > (
> > [MetaUser] => Array
> > (
> > [optin] => 1
> > [activation_code] => 9c1a26272907d4196a7bf39d
> > [user_id] => 17
> > )
> > )
>
> > This obviously won't save since there is no optin or activation_code
> > column in the MetaUser table. So I tried creating a beforeSave() under
> > the presumption that if this was a numerical array it might try and
> > add multiple rows on its own;
>
> > public function beforeSave() {
>
> > if ( isset( $this->data['MetaUser']['user_id'] ) ) {
>
> > $userid = $this->data['MetaUser']['user_id'];
>
> > $new = array();
> > $i = 0;
>
> > foreach ( $this->data['MetaUser'] as $k => $v ) {
> > $new[$i]['user_id'] = $user_id;
> > $new[$i]['meta_key'] = $k;
> > $new[$i]['meta_value'] = $v;
> > $i++;
> > }
>
> > $this->data['MetaUser'] = $new;
>
> > }
>
> > return true;
>
> > }
>
> > But apparently it doesn't work that way. I'm going to try it next
> > using distinct save()'s for $this->User and $this->MetaUser but am I
> > missing something else that I should be doing instead? I want to
> > create a MetaUser model where I can save each entry (even if multiple
> > are coming from one form) as separate rows based on the key => value
> > pair setup.
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