Hey Dave,
It seems to me that a players table, a games table and a players_games
table would be in order here.
players
id
games
id
players_games
player_id
game_id
Then in your player model perhaps, check for uniqueness against games_id
I use this method in my user table to check for unique username
class User extends AppModel {
var $name = 'User';
var $actsAs = array( 'Acl'='requester' );
var $displayField = 'username';
var $validate = array(
'id' = array(
'rule' = 'blank',
'on' = 'create'
),
'username' = array(
'checkUnique' = array(
'rule' = array('checkUnique', 'username'),
'message' = 'An account with that username has already
been registered.',
'on' = 'create'
)
),
.
function checkUnique($data, $fieldName) {
$valid = false;
if(isset($fieldName) $this-hasField($fieldName))
{
$valid = $this-isUnique(array($fieldName = $data));
}
return $valid;
}
HTH
On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 16:52 -0800, DaveM wrote:
Hi all,
I'm struggling with designing the models for an application I'm
building. Here is my database structure:
players
-- id
-- name
games
-- id
-- player_one_id
-- player_two_id
-- player_three_id
-- player_four_id
-- player_five_id
Each game has five players. Any player can appear in multiple games,
but not in the same game twice. How would I need to setup my model
associations and how do I define the player_#_id fields in the game
views?
Thanks in advance!
Dave
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