You have two associations between the User and the ThingFunction model: - the owner association is - User hasMany ThingFunction - ThingFunction belongsTo User. - the favorites association is - User hasAndBelongsToMany ThingFunction and vice verse.
Hope this helps you on the way :) Enjoy, John On Oct 16, 9:22 pm, "Tamim A." <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have a bit of a twist on "favorites" that I'm not sure how to handle. I > have a Users model and a ThingFunction model. A user can create a > ThingFunction. Also, I want users to be able to have ThingFunctions as > favorites (which would be a HABTM relationship in a join table > thing_functions_users). > > So, for the first part, I use: > > ThingFunction model: > > var $belongsTo = array( > 'User' => array( > 'className' => 'User', > 'counterCache' => true, > 'counterScope' => array ('ThingFunction.is_inappropriate' => 0) > ), > ); > > User model: > > var $hasMany = array( > 'ThingFunction' => array( > 'className' => 'ThingFunction', > 'conditions' => 'ThingFunction.is_inappropriate = 0' > ) > ); > > How do I handle the favorites part? Would I just add this to ThingFunction: > > var $hasAndBelongsToMany = array('User'); > > And this in the User model: > > var $hasAndBelongsToMany = array('ThingFunction'); > > If above is correct, then how would I differentiate between ThingFunctions > that belong to a user (created by them) and ThingFunctions that are a User's > favorite? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. > > Tamim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
