Hello,

I'm trying to create these associations that are not really (directly)
there on the database level, but should be present in my CakePHP
model. To give an idea of what I'm talking about, consider the
following example.

Assume three different models:
- Location
- Event
- Photoset

With associations as follows:
- Location hasMany Event (and Event belongsTo Location)
- Event hasMany Photoset (and Photoset belongsTo Event)

So on the database level there is no direct reference between Location
and Photoset and vice versa. Now I want to add a 'virtual' association
to my CakePHP model definition:
- Location hasMany Photoset (and Photoset belongsTo Location).

The logic behind this association should be clear: all photosets that
belong to any event that belongs to a location, should belong to
location. I have been trying to create this association by defining a
custom hasMany['Photoset'] on Location through a custom query in its
'finderQuery' attribute. This worked fine.

But the other way around I cannot think of a way to define the
corresponding belongsTo['Location'] on Photoset. I thought of two
options:
- defining the Photoset->belongsTo['Location'] through a custom query.
This is not possible since belongsTo does not provide a 'finderQuery'
attribute.
- setting the 'foreignKey' attribute of Photoset-
>belongsTo['Location'] in such a manner that it would refer to
Photoset->data['Event']['location_id']. This did not work either since
'foreignKey' does not seem to accept anything more complex than the
name of the foreign key field in the database table of Photoset.

Does anyone have some more ideas? Or am I trying to do something that
I shouldn't want to do?

Thanks a lot,

Tim


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