Hey All, I'm working on a project wherein I would like to implement a model that hasAndBelongsToMany of itself. To better illustrate this, imagine a data structure composed of linking nodes not unlike that of a tree. Instead of one parent and many child nodes, however, my structure has many parent nodes and many child nodes. The sequence of the nodes is still important (i.e. I still require a separation of children and parents). I would like to retain the ability to transverse the structure by traveling to any parent or any child from the node at which I currently sit, and so I believe HABTM relationships to be the answer.
My attempt to solve this conundrum was to implement a node table and two join tables - children and parents - both of which taking the place of what would be conventionally named nodes_nodes tables. The "children" join table consists of two columns - 'node_id' and 'child_id' - as does the "parents" join table - 'node_id' and 'parent_id'. And so my Node model holds the HABTM associations 'Child' => array( 'className' => 'Node', 'joinTable' => 'children', 'foreignKey' => 'node_id', 'associationForeignKey' => 'child_id' ) , 'Parent' => array( 'className' => 'Node', 'joinTable' => 'parents', 'foreignKey' => 'node_id', 'associationForeignKey' => 'parent_id' ) This approach has got me far as the Bake utility generating controllers and views that provide the option to select multiple Nodes as parents and children while adding or updating, however the selected parent/children are not actually inserted into the join tables. And so I ask: am I going about this in the right manner? If not, or if you have an alternate suggestion - I'm all ears! Please point me in the correct direction :) Thank you very much for your time and consideration, ~KuroTstuo -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. 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
