This may be of help: http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/polymorphic-behavior
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:28 PM, patcoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
