Re: should teacher and student stay together???
Thanks for everyone's help. great informations, learned a lot. On May 2, 11:29 am, philp pome...@free.fr wrote: Hi there, you could also use this behavior: https://github.com/Theaxiom/Polymorphic2.0 On 29 avr, 17:28, Tan Cheng davidtan...@gmail.com wrote: so there is a HABTM relationship between students and teachers. -- 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
Re: should teacher and student stay together???
Hi there, you could also use this behavior: https://github.com/Theaxiom/Polymorphic2.0 On 29 avr, 17:28, Tan Cheng davidtan...@gmail.com wrote: so there is a HABTM relationship between students and teachers. -- 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
Re: should teacher and student stay together???
i believe the term your are looking for is 'self referential habtm' goole for it. there are plenty examples On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:53 PM, cricket zijn.digi...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Tan Cheng davidtan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, A very basic question, I naively believe that there's no dumb question... I'm creating a database, and the users are categorized into teachers and students, obviously, one student has and belongs to many teachers and vice versa, so there is a HABTM relationship between students and teachers. So in cake, which is the better approach? 1) Put them in the users table and use a field to distinguish students and teachers, but bhow do I describe the HABTM relationship between them? Do I need to create a students_teachers table?/b You could add 2 columns to your users table, model foreign_key. The students teachers tables can also have a user_id column to associate back the other way. 2) Create three tables, students, teachers, and a students_teachers table. Yes, do that as well. These are not mutually exclusive. -- 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 -- 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
should teacher and student stay together???
Hi all, A very basic question, I naively believe that there's no dumb question... I'm creating a database, and the users are categorized into teachers and students, obviously, one student has and belongs to many teachers and vice versa, so there is a HABTM relationship between students and teachers. So in cake, which is the better approach? 1) Put them in the users table and use a field to distinguish students and teachers, but bhow do I describe the HABTM relationship between them? Do I need to create a students_teachers table?/b 2) Create three tables, students, teachers, and a students_teachers table. Any help really appreciated!!! -- 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
Re: should teacher and student stay together???
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Tan Cheng davidtan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, A very basic question, I naively believe that there's no dumb question... I'm creating a database, and the users are categorized into teachers and students, obviously, one student has and belongs to many teachers and vice versa, so there is a HABTM relationship between students and teachers. So in cake, which is the better approach? 1) Put them in the users table and use a field to distinguish students and teachers, but bhow do I describe the HABTM relationship between them? Do I need to create a students_teachers table?/b You could add 2 columns to your users table, model foreign_key. The students teachers tables can also have a user_id column to associate back the other way. 2) Create three tables, students, teachers, and a students_teachers table. Yes, do that as well. These are not mutually exclusive. -- 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
