Hi I receive from a 3rd party, a CSV of data with a Unique field "code", which is a varchar of 5 characters or so, e.g. TR34 or XE288
I need to turn this into a table that will work with Cake well, so lets call it "codes" and then I am not sure what to do about setting a primary key? I am thinking I should set it a new (extra field) id, and assign that Primary Key in MySQL. Assigning UNIQUE Key to code field. Is that best practise, and for Cake? (to explain more: I have a table "changes", and it needs to have an association here - "code" hasMany "changes" so the join is on code_id as Foreign Key. ) But given that the data is 3rd party, in the future I may well get a updated CSV with lots of changes to all these codes, and I am unsure of how I could then merge that in easily into my MySQL database? e.g. wouldnt this mean lots of queries rather than a simple upload of CSV data? I would be very grateful for any help on this, as I'd like to do it the best way from the start :) I asked on IRc, but got no response, unfortunately. thanks in advance Luke --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
