This does not serve the purpose because tagging needs to be implemented on all the 3 types of entities : Posts, Teachers and Books .
On Nov 1, 11:15 pm, Anupom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please find my suggested db design below, > > tags: id, name > types: id, name > posts: id, name > teachers: id, name > books: id, name, type_id > books_tags: id, book_id, tag_id > All ids are auto increment & primary fields. > > So if, the book with (id, name, type_id) = (6, 'Bookname', 2) has two tags > with (id, name) = (11, 'Chemistry') & (23, 'Grade A'), then the entry in the > books_tags(book_id, tag_id) table for this will be - (6, 11) & (6, 23) . > Also read this page from the > dochttp://book.cakephp.org/view/24/Model-and-Database-Conventions > > -- > Anupom Syamhttp://syamantics.com/ > > On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 8:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > I am trying to build a tagging feature in my site which is a community > > site for a school. > > > In my site, I have various entity types like : Blog Post, Teacher, > > Book . > > > Every entry for these entities will have tags associated with it . So, > > a tag may belong to one or more items of different entities. > > > In a normal core PHP project, I would have designed tables for this in > > the following manner :- > > > 1) tags : tag_id, tag_name . > > 2) entity_types : entity_type_id, entity_type_name . [(0, Posts), > > (1, Teachers), (2, Books)] > > 3) posts : post_id, post_name . > > 4) teachers : teacher_id, teacher_name . > > 5) books : book_id, book_name > > 6) entities_tags : tag_id, entity_type_id, entity_id . > > > So, if a book (entity_type_id = 2) with book_id = 6 has 2 tags > > (tag_id, tag_name) : (11, 'Chemistry') & (23, 'Grade A') , then the > > entry in entities_tags for this will be : (11, 2, 6) & (23, 2, 6) . > > > I am using CakePHP for my project and I am not able to design the > > tables in CakePHP for this Tagging Feature. > > > It would be great if people could come up with their suggestions. > > > Thanks a lot !! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
