Re: saving to multiple models in a habtm relationship

2009-01-02 Thread WebbedIT
Hmmm .. Are you sure you have the right association type here? Sounds to me as it could be a hasOne <=> belongsTo relationship. I.e. can one Article be related to more than one Measure and vice versa? An all-in-one entry form would not easily allow you to create an Article or Measure and relat

Re: saving to multiple models in a habtm relationship

2009-01-02 Thread aaron
A) thanks for the responses. B) looking back I have a very poorly written post. What I meant to say is that I want to save a new measure and a new article all at once. So on the measure add page I also have all the fields for adding both a new Measure and a new Article, which I want to be assoc

Re: saving to multiple models in a habtm relationship

2009-01-02 Thread WebbedIT
Brian's answer is spot on for a generic HABTM join table, but I am confused by your original post in places. > And the measure stuff saves fine, but the join table saves the new > measure_id, but the article_id is always 0, and nothing is saved in > the article table. Are you adding a Measure re

Re: saving to multiple models in a habtm relationship

2009-01-01 Thread brian
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 4:27 PM, aaron wrote: > > I have two models, Measure and Article, with an habtm relationship. I > want to add a measure and a related article at the same time. I've > tried using this algorithm from another post (http://groups.google.com/ > group/cake-php/browse_thread/th

saving to multiple models in a habtm relationship

2009-01-01 Thread aaron
I have two models, Measure and Article, with an habtm relationship. I want to add a measure and a related article at the same time. I've tried using this algorithm from another post (http://groups.google.com/ group/cake-php/browse_thread/thread/863c403df2a2de6/3137f612e3ffdf68? lnk=gst&q=saving+