Grant, thank you! My app doesn't need a HABTM relationship for images, as far as it it's layout looks like now. I thought of adding fields for foreign_model and foreign_id myself, your post showed me I was on the right track.
Bassy regards, Benjamin On Sep 22, 5:43 am, Grant Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HABTM vs hasMany depends on your application functionality - between > an article and an image is it hasMany (each image is only in one > article), or HABTM (each image could be in multiple articles)? The > table setup will follow these application requirements, not the other > way round. > > If you can have a single table, do it. I would recommend each Image > having a field "foreign_model" and "foreign_id", and the association > from Article would be: > > var $hasMany = array( > 'Image' => array( > 'className' => 'Image', > 'conditions' => array( > 'Image.foreign_model'=>'Article', > 'Image.is_archived' => 0 > ), > 'foreignKey' => 'foreign_id', > 'dependent' => true, > ), > ); > > This way the one Image table can store images used for any other > associations. > > On Sep 22, 9:57 am, bigbass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > I'm setting up a new site with cake 1.1. As a cake-newby, maybe you > > could give me your 5 cents (or even more? :) : > > The site uses user-generated images in different places (user profile, > > galeries, articles etc) > > I'm thinking of setting up just one table which stores image > > information (meta's etc) and joining this table via HABTM (eg. > > articles_images to the refering table articles). Is this a good > > practice in cake, or in general? Or would it be more efficient (and > > more resource-friendly) to use separate tables for each referer, as a > > HasMany relation (articles HasMany articleImages). Which models would > > be faster concerning requests? > > > Best regards, > > thanks for your cents in advance, > > Benjamin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
