Re: Taking advantage of Cake to build personal book database

2007-11-11 Thread maschoen
btw, When a book is reissued, it gets a new ISBN. I think just the last digit changes. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Cake PHP group. To post to this group, send email to

Taking advantage of Cake to build personal book database

2007-11-10 Thread Comida411
I am building a database to store personal collections of books... Users will use my site to query open source databases using the isbn number... It is possible that i many people will use the site (like thousands may open accounts and start cataloging their personal book collections..) Book

Re: Taking advantage of Cake to build personal book database

2007-11-10 Thread gerhardsletten
Do you mean that they should be allowed to I think that each book object should b Shouldn't the ISBN number be unique key. Books may have the same title, but the ISBN is always unique, i think.. Don't know what happens if the book is republished though.. Freebase do have a collection of book

Re: Taking advantage of Cake to build personal book database

2007-11-10 Thread Tobias Parent
Comida411 wrote: wouldn't it be better to record changes made to a book by each account rather than creating a whole new record of a book for each account that has that book... so each account would simply be pulling their book data off of one table which would then pass it rhrough a filter