Doh! Found the answer in another thread - wasn't immediately clear in the over docs but that's probably me.
setting var $primayKey = 'override_fieldname'; will let you do just that :) On Feb 11, 7:05 pm, "Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > developing a very simple webmail app in cake and am having trouble > with the association between the MailMessage model and it's related > sender's Contact model. > > I want to relate the MailMessage as 'belongsTo' Contact via the > MailMessage and Contacts email field - only I can't seem to work out > how to do it, as it's automagically assuming that the field on the > Contact model is Contact.id. > > Can I override the primary key as follows? > > MailMessage.fromAddress = Contact.emailAddress > > I suspect, I've not fully understood associations and that there is a > much more striaghtforward way to do this :) > > Many thanks > > D --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
