On Mar 1, 6:02 pm, Anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, I'm aware this is probably a very dumb, newbie question, but you
gotta start somewhere, right?
Say I have a users table and a messages table. For each ONE user,
there are MULTIPLE messages. However, when doing a findAll on the
users, I would like it to spit back all the messages the user has both
sent AND received.
In the messages table, I am using belongsTo and the foreignKey is
set to the user ID that the message was sent TO. How can I tell the
model that the message also belongs to the user that sent the
message?
In your message table:
create the field sender_id
rename user_id to recipient_id
In your Message model,
var $belongsTo = array(
'Sender'=array('className'='User','foreignKey'='sender_id'),
'Recipient'=array('className'='User','foreignKey'='recipient_id')
);
In your User model,
var $hasMany = array(
'SentMessages'=array('className'='Message','foreignKey'='sender_id'),
'ReceivedMessages'=array('className'='Message','foreignKey'='recipient_id')
);
In your User controller, after creating some dummy data, put pr($this-
User-findAll()); and you should see the user, and both the messages
sent and received. If there are any errors in the above, check the api/
manual ;)
HTH,
AD
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