Hi All I'm having a little difficulty conceptualizing the relationships when setting up a database/models, for a app I'm starting to develop. If I'm creating a basic inventory management application I have the following:
Table Name | Columns users | id, user_name, email, etc... items | id, name, description, etc... items_users | id, item_id, user_id I want a user to be able to mark items as "owns" or "wants" and a user can own many items and items can be owned my many users. Similarly "wants" would have same HABTM relationship between users and items. Now I can set up the HABTM relationship table "items_users" but that will only get me one relationship between users and items. (either the "owns" or "wants"). In order to get the second relationship type do I need to set up a second relationship table? if so what would the naming conventions be? Or do I add a another column to "items_users" table called "itemstatus" and have values such as "owns", "wants", "owns & wants"... More or less looking for the best approach and/or other suggestions. Thanks in advance. 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
