There is a twitter clone you can study... its not based on cakephp, but it is written in php... so, it may be simple to understand and build your own clone.
http://www.baixebr.org/softwares/programacao/twitter-clone-script-php-micro-blogging/ -- Renato Freire On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:43 PM, DiabloGeto <[email protected]>wrote: > I am trying to implement a similar feature, but am not sure how > to propagate data in the tables. The follower is one of the ther user from > the user table only. So it dosn't makes much sense to me , to maintain > follow table with details of the user. rather it will be better that i can > save the respective user_id's in the followed and follower column, will it > be possible by HABTM or Join model.??? > > > On Wednesday, June 13, 2012 10:53:56 AM UTC+5:30, Karey Powell wrote: >> >> It can be done easily with a HABTM relationship. For example, >> >> Table Users: >> - id >> - name >> - email >> >> Table Followers >> - id >> - name >> - email >> >> and then to create the HABTM relationship, all you have to do is create >> an association table to join Users and Followed_Users. >> >> Table Followed_Users >> - id >> - user_id >> - follower_id >> >> and make them both UNIQUE KEY ` user_id ` (` user_id `,` follower_id `). >> This should do the trick. You don't have to worry about the relationships >> when deleting a record, Cake already takes care of it by setting >> the 'unique' => 'keepExisting' in the association of the Model. >> > -- > Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials > http://tv.cakephp.org > Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help > others with their CakePHP related questions. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] For more options, visit this group > at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php > -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
