On Dec 18, 8:10 pm, brian <[email protected]> wrote:
> Andy Dawson's PolymorphicBehavior seems like the perfect answer to a
> problem I have but I'm having trouble implementing it. My situation is
> that I have a User model, then several different models which a user
> can "be" ie. 'Organization', 'Student', etc. So, I've tried doing
> this:
>
> users table:
> id
> created
> modified
> model
> foreign_key
> -- etc.
>
> class User extends AppModel
> {
> var $name = 'User';
> var $actsAs = array('Polymorphic');
>
> }
>
> class Admin extends AppModel
> {
> var $name = 'Admin';
>
> var $hasOne = array(
> 'User' => array(
> 'className' => 'User',
> 'foreignKey' => 'foreign_key',
> 'conditions' => array('User.model' => 'Admin'),
> 'dependent' => true
> )
> );
>
> }
>
> UsersController:
>
> $user = $this->User->findByEmail($this->data['User']['email']);
> debug($user); exit;
>
> All I see is an array for 'User'.
>
> I've verified that the DB tables have the correct information.
>
> Am I looking at this the wrong way? In Andy's article[1] he uses the
> example of a Note class which can belongTo several others. My
> situation is a bit different, though it seems much closer to how I
> understood polymorphic classes to work.
>
> [1]http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/polymorphic-behavior
It's for polymorphic associations rather than polymorphic objects.
Although you can use it for what you're describing, it was written for
things like notes.
Try the active-dev version:
http://trac.assembla.com/mi/browser/branches/base/models/behaviors/polymorphic.php#L105
you'd see a $data['User']['Admin'][ full admin data ] for an admin
user.
hth
AD
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