CakePHP Model Association

2007-09-19 Thread axpen
Ok my question is this. How do you associate a record from a table without an ID tie-in. I.E. i'm developing a zencart add-on and basically there is the following map I want to relate; products ( products_id #main ID field ... #other fields ) products_description ( #i've already used

Re: CakePHP Model Association

2007-09-19 Thread axpen
Yeah I know about the foreign key thing, but that would still require that I add an ID field to the description table, which I want to avoid mucking with zencarts default database structure. I would make a belongsToAndHasMany table, but that would seem silly since all the values would be the same

Re: CakePHP Model Association

2007-09-19 Thread axpen
Ok then in that case what is the equivalent of $this-query from model in the controller class, or do I have to call $model-query or something Thanks for you help --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Cake

Re: CakePHP Model Association

2007-09-19 Thread axpen
Ok that works fine, thank you for your effort, i'll just remember in the future that advanced model integrations with preexisting tables will have to be done manually. --Alex --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Include Rows From The Model

2007-09-13 Thread axpen
Ok my problem is this; I would like to get a row from a from another table who has the same ID as my current row. Let me throw some ASCII art for you to see: Table 1 +ID +... Table 2 +ID +... Now this would be simple if Table 1 had a field like table_2_id, however this is not the case. I