Re: Models and multiple tables

2006-06-08 Thread nate
sicapitan wrote: > just seemed a bit excessive to have 1,000,000 files for 1,000,000 tables Have you ever been to an airport in the US, and seen that big glass container that shows all the things you're not allowed to bring on an airplane? Well, at the John Wayne Airport in Orange County, Califo

Re: Models and multiple tables

2006-06-08 Thread sicapitan
ill read that cheers :) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

Re: Models and multiple tables

2006-06-08 Thread AD7six
Hmm, And in terms of normal development, whereby having 100 tables would be considered large..? I think that if you really, really, really wanted to, you could probably put all of your model class defentions into one file; but there´s no escaping that there needs to be a model defenition for each

Re: Models and multiple tables

2006-06-08 Thread sicapitan
just seemed a bit excessive to have 1,000,000 files for 1,000,000 tables --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 unsubscrib

Re: Models and multiple tables

2006-06-08 Thread AD7six
Hi Sicapitan What case/problem are you considering...? You need a model file to define each of your models (Person.php, Address.php, Order.php, OrderLine.php) so that Cake knows which models exist. How else would cake know ...? Appart from looking for which models are defined - to know their gen

Re: Models and multiple tables

2006-06-07 Thread sicapitan
well, some databases are huge, trying to display the files in a file tree, then finding the file, would take forever --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send emai

Re: Models and multiple tables

2006-06-07 Thread nate
Uh, yes, that's how it goes. Why, do you think that's too much work? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 f

Re: Models and multiple tables

2006-06-07 Thread Felix Geisendörfer
Normally Model<->Table is a 1:1 relationship. You can easily work around this, but I think that's against the idea behind Models. So yes, you should create a [model].php for every table you want to work with (besides join tables). -- http://www.thinkingphp.org http://ww

Models and multiple tables

2006-06-07 Thread sicapitan
According the the manual, it says the model relates directly to a database table. But I have multiple tables. Does this mean I need a model.php file for each table? Surely not. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Go