I would probably do something like this, where I use a new model
"Friendship" as the join table.
eg.
friendships
--------------------
id
user_id
friend_user_id
You probably need to specify join fields and the like, and also you
might need to do a custom finderQuery to enable search both join
fields.
var $hasAndBelongsToMany = array(
'Friend' => array('className' => 'User', 'with' =>
'Friendship'),
);
Maybe even look at noserub on how it handles social networks.
Cheers,
Adam
On Apr 9, 7:06 pm, dizz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to add a friend feature to one of my sites.
>
> I am trying to wrap my head around how to set up the relationship.
>
> I have a table users which holds all the users info.
>
> Each user can have many friends which is just an alias for many users
> and those friends (users) belong to the User.
>
> This sounds like a HABTM relation, but how would I go about setting it
> using the same model?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> -Andrew
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