fwiw, that's what Cake ACL does as well to reference different models in one table
'model' -- references the cake model 'foreign_key' -- references the unique id to that model's table. On May 1, 9:01 pm, Grant Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's the way I do it, and have had no problems. It is quite trivial > to set up conditions on your associations, so that the associated rows > are loaded automatically. > > On May 2, 9:52 am, validkeys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Quick question.. > > > I have a conversation going on between users and managers. users and > > managers are 2 seperate tables but the conversation posts are held in > > one table. When i reference the post i reference it by id and then > > have a field called model. The model field would hold either the word > > Manager or User depending on whether or not it was a user or manager > > that posted to the conversation. I was wondering if anyone had a > > better way to do this. > > > Feel free to shoot me down and make me feel small. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
