If I'm catching what you are doing... You have to create a FansUser
model and add some relationships to it.

http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/browse_frm/thread/f23b1825050ad543/e793267f42fa77fd?#e793267f42fa77fd
http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/browse_frm/thread/8cbf01f7a9acda57/9e84f7aacbf3cd85?#9e84f7aacbf3cd85

I think.. this is what you want. I could be wrong though.

On Aug 1, 9:47 am, Jim Newfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone? Sorry, I am just stuck. If there was some way in cake to
> specify an alternative key it is searching for in the foreign table, I
> think that may solve my problem.
> Thanks.
>
> Jim.
>
> On Jul 31, 1:55 pm, Jim Newfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
>
> > Last resort post, I am stuck. What I have done is create a "friends"
> > system in my app. Although it is mildly tricky because the friends are
> > the same thing as users, just using an alias.
>
> > My tables look like this right now (only relevant information shown):
>
> > Users:
> > Id
>
> > Fans_Users:
> > fan_id
> > user_id
>
> > Fans:
> > id
> > fans_info
>
> > The fan is just an alias for another user. I have the HABTM
> > association set up fine and dandy. But what I cannot seem to get to
> > work no matter what I try, is get the user infomation to be be pulled
> > up with that fan. For example, User 67 has two fans, users 45 and
> > users 46. Not when I query for User 67, his two fans are shown, users
> > 45 and 46. BUT, I want users 45 and users 46 information to be shown
> > as well. I have tried all sorts of combinations of hasOne/belongsTo in
> > the fans table to get the fan to link to some user info. Even tried
> > adding a fan_id to the user table, (which is the same thing as their
> > id) And linking it to that. Problem is, it is matching the Fan.id to
> > the fan.user_id which is obviously a problem. I was thinking if I
> > could somehow modify the primary key it is searching for in the local
> > table, it could work (instead of matching the Fan.id to the User.id,
> > match the Fan.fan_id to the User.id)
>
> > I am really stuck here, has anyone attempting anything similar?
>
> > Thanks.
>
> > Jim


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