Product belongsTo Category
and
Category hasMany Products

You could just do Product belongsTo Category, but if you link it the  
other way as well you can get Products in a Category when searching  
from Category->find() easily.

On 12 Sep 2008, at 23:32, nachopitt wrote:

>
> Isn't just only a 'belongs to' association? 'Product' belongsTo
> 'Category'?
>
> On Sep 11, 9:31 pm, "David C. Zentgraf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> You're doing it exactly the way you described 
>> it:http://book.cakephp.org/view/81/belongsTohttp://book.cakephp.org/view/82/hasMany
>>
>> On 12 Sep 2008, at 07:41, VitillO wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> This is the case, i have a tables "products", "categories".  
>>> Normally i
>>> would link a category to a product using product.category_id, and
>>> since a category can be assigned to many products i dont have a
>>> product_id in the categories table. So, how can i make this
>>> relationship between the 2 without using a HABTM table, because lets
>>> say i want to link a product just to 1 category, not many  
>>> categories.
>>
>>> I will appreciate a lot any help with this! Thank you
> >


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