That depends on what $this->Recipe->recursive is set to. On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Steven Wright <rhythmicde...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Brian one more thing for clarification. My expectation is that if I > define the relationships correctly and my DB table are keyed correctly when > I call for a read all from the Recipe model I should all related information > from all tables no matter how deep the relationship. Is that correct? > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: cake-php@googlegroups.com [mailto:cake-...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of brian > Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 1:13 PM > To: cake-php@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Relationships - HABTM > > > Both Recipe and Ingredient should be HABTM with each other. You can have > many recipes which share ingredients. The join table for both would be: > > ingredients_recipes > ingredient_id, > recipe_id > > You could add an id primary key in there, also, as it might come in handy. > It's not required, though. > > As for IngredientList, I'm not sure I've never thought much about doing this > with Cake. I guess you could put the amount info, etc. in the > ingredients_recipes join table but I'm not sure that'd be the best way. > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Steven Wright <rhythmicde...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hi Brian thanks for writing back. >> >> The ingredient_lists table is where the ingredient, amount and >> ingredient level instructions are stored. I suppose it's really a join >> table for recipes, ingredients and measurement_types. So from your >> reply I should actually rename this to ingredients_recipes. >> >> And you are saying that the Ingredient model gets the HABTM instead of >> Recipe. Is that correct? >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: cake-php@googlegroups.com [mailto:cake-...@googlegroups.com] On >> Behalf Of brian >> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 12:26 PM >> To: cake-php@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: Relationships - HABTM >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:57 AM, rhythmicde...@gmail.com >> <rhythmicde...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I have been making some pretty good headway on defining the >>> relationships for my models. However I am not getting some data that >>> I expect to get. This may be due to my relationship definitions or a >>> misunderstanding of what CakePHP will do for me. I am hoping one you >>> can point me in the right direction. >>> >>> So am I missing something here? Wrong relationship definition? Wrong >>> expectation? >>> >>> Thanks in advance. >>> Steve >>> >>> >>> I have the following models and relationship definitions: >>> >>> Recipe >>> var $hasAndBelongsToMany = array( >>> 'Ingredient' => >>> array( >>> 'className' => 'Ingredient', >>> 'joinTable' => 'ingredient_lists', >>> 'foreignKey' => 'recipe_id', >>> 'associationForeignKey' => 'ingredient_id', >>> 'unique' => true >>> ), >>> 'MeasurementType' => >>> array( >>> 'className' => 'MeasurementType', >>> 'joinTable' => 'ingredient_lists', >>> 'foreignKey' => 'recipe_id', >>> 'associationForeignKey' => 'measurement_type_id', >>> 'unique' => true >>> ) >>> ); >>> >>> >>> IngredientList >>> var $belongsTo = array('Recipe', 'MeasurementType'); >>> >>> >>> Ingredient >>> var $belongsTo = 'IngredientType'; >>> >> >> I don't understand what you're doing with the ingredient_lists table. >> But your ingredient model, at least, should HABTM Recipe. >> Ingredient >> var $hasAndBelongsToMany = array('Recipe'); >> >> And the join table should be ingredients_recipes. >> >> >> >> > >> > > > > > >
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