AD and jyrgen: thanks for responding.
AD: I really appreciate that you answered each of my questions. Very
helpful! God Bless You!
You clarified things for me. I now see that I don't really need Friend
model. I just need a join table (let's just call it friends). I have
tried it. It works beauti
Hi Victor,
Hope I can clarify a couple of things for you.
On 17 mayo, 20:47, Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to define the right model and relationship for User and
> Friend. Here are my tables
>
> CREATE TABLE users {
> id INT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
> name VARCHAR
can a model be associated to itself in cake ?
if so, then you would need a user-user table
like this:
CREATE TABLE user_user {
usera_id INT UNSIGNED,
userb_id INT UNSIGNED
PRIMARY KEY(usera_id, userb_id)
}
anyways, this is a special case to my opinion
which cannot be baked. i might be wrong, but
Sliv,
Thanks for responding. Interestingly, I just saw the tonymarston
article.
It is database design issue. But I think that it is more how to
implement in CakePHP. There are some CakePHP code fragments out there.
But I didn't a complete description yet.
On May 17, 6:10 pm, Sliv <[EMAIL PROTEC
I think that's maybe a db design issue more than a cake one and it
really depends on what you want to accomplish with your data. I'd
recommend doing some reading on the concepts of db normalization and
data models:
http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/intro-to-normalization.html
http://w
I am trying to define the right model and relationship for User and
Friend. Here are my tables
CREATE TABLE users {
id INT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
name VARCHAR (20)
}
CREATE TABLE friends {
user_id INT UNSIGNED,
friend_id INT UNSIGNED
PRIMARY KEY(user_id, friend_id)
}
The next thin
