Re: Creating Dynamic Model Associations
I know you can, on the fly, do new associations (or is this v1.2?) You can in 1.1 too -- see bindModel/unbindModel in the 'model' chapter of the manual (also often refered to in this group) but they only work for the next query. Is this correct? Well - yes ;) But it shouldn't be difficult to have them created automatically ? How about : In your AppModel class, add a constructor (__construct -- Cake makes it work in php4 too) which checks for a inherits variable, and then registers your association accordingly. class Article extends AppModel { var $inherits = 'Item'; } Internally, Cake only keeps one copy of each Model -- so $item = ClassRegistry::getObject('Item') should return the the Item model that is used everywhere ; you can easilly call bindModel on this object, and the association will be valid everywhere. Anselm --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Cake PHP group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Creating Dynamic Model Associations
In my latest project, I am trying to make particular Models/Controllers inherit from other Models/Controllers that I create. For example: Items -- Article -- News -- Event In particular, I am trying to figure out the model association, so that I can plug in a new Model and Controller and it all works magically. My current Items Model is: ?php class Item extends AppModel { var $name = 'Item'; var $hasMany = array( 'Event' = array('className' = 'Event', 'conditions'= '', 'order' = '', 'limit' = '', 'foreignKey'= 'item_id', 'dependent' = true, 'exclusive' = false, 'finderQuery' = '' ) ); } ? I don't want to have to go in and edit the Items model every time I get a new model that inherits from Item. I know you can, on the fly, do new associations (or is this v1.2?) but they only work for the next query. Is this correct? Thanks for your help. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Cake PHP group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---