On Feb 1, 4:05 am, mscdex <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a model that contains a hasMany relationship with a model that > "actsAs" a Tree. This Tree model has a hasMany 'child' relationship as > well as a belongsTo 'parent' relationship to the same model. This > setup works just fine when the user is interactively adding children > nodes and such. However, I also have a function that gathers data from > a flat file and inserts new records based on that data using saveAll. > > My problem is I cannot find a quick and easy way to automatically > insert children at the same time. If I have a multidimensional array > ('TodoChild' in the example below), is there a way to get the Tree > Behavior to use it to create the children and automatically assign > them to the proper parent? > > The only way I thought to do it was by somehow using a recursive > method and doing a save on the parent first, then set the parent_id > for each direct child below it and saving each of those (then repeat > recursively). But that approach just seemed a bit much just to simply > add children. > > My hasMany and belongsTo relationships for the model with Tree > Behavior only have the foreignKey set to "parent_id." Here is an > example data array with the same structure I am working with: > > [User] => Array > ( > [name] => John > ) > > [Todo] => Array > ( > [0] => Array > ( > [type] => single > [note] => bread, milk, eggs > ) > > [1] => Array > ( > [type] => multiple > [TodoChild] => Array > ( > [0] => Array > ( > [type] => single > [note] => cereal > ) > > [1] => Array > ( > [type] => single > [note] => dessert > ) > > ) > > ) > > )
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