Re: friends and self HABTM

2010-02-06 Thread Foroct
Thanks John! While your example didn't exactly work it did help me figure out what to do. function addfriend($id = null) { if (!empty($this->data)) { // set user id $this->data['user_id'] = $this->Auth->user('id');

Re: friends and self HABTM

2010-02-06 Thread John Andersen
Ok, just checked with the CakePHP book again, and it is a little more complicated than just saving the data. http://book.cakephp.org/view/75/Saving-Your-Data#Saving-Related-Model-Data-HABTM-85 In the add a friend case, you are right! You have to save the information in the HABTM table yourself, so

Re: friends and self HABTM

2010-02-05 Thread John Andersen
No, CakePHP uses your HABTM definition between User and Friend (User), so that it knows, that your User.id and your Friend.id must go into the users_users table. John On Feb 5, 10:23 pm, Foroct wrote: > John, > > Wouldn't that save my data to my users table and not my users_users > table?  The

Re: friends and self HABTM

2010-02-05 Thread Foroct
John, Wouldn't that save my data to my users table and not my users_users table? The users_users table is where the friendships are kept. Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. You received this message because you are s

Re: friends and self HABTM

2010-02-05 Thread John Andersen
Your data structure for saving should look like this: array ( [User] => array ( [id] => 999 ) [Friend] => array ( [id] => 888 ) ) so do this: [code] if (!empty($this->data)) { $this->data['User']['id'] = $this->Auth->user('id'); if ( $this->User->save( $this->d

Re: friends and self HABTM

2010-02-05 Thread Foroct
Bump- Can anyone provide some insight on this? Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-ph

friends and self HABTM

2010-02-04 Thread Foroct
I am trying to build a simple social network type site where a user can friend another user. I realize this has been discussed before, a lot, but none of the discussions on here really point out my issue so I thought someone might be able to shine some light on where I am going astray. My user mo