Have you tried using bindModel() (I think that's what it's called) with dynamic names? That might work...
However, I'm not sure why this is necessary - If you know enough about the page to widget relations to serialise it in an array, surely you know enough to do the same things with a proper DB relation? On Apr 30, 4:54 pm, Evert <[email protected]> wrote: > My site is build with a lot of plugins. > Now, I used to use a 'pages' table that had the column called > 'widgets' > the column contained a serialized array which contained information > about which widgets (models) should be in that page. Something like > this: > > array( > [0] => array( > 'name' => 'content' > 'args' => array( > 'id' => 1 > ) > ) > [1] => array( > 'name' => 'comments' > 'args' => array( > 'group_id' => 1 > ) > ) > ) > > Then I had plugin-models called 'Content' and 'Comments' which had > tables like 'content_data', 'content_settings', 'comments_data' and > 'comments_settings'. > > Now someone told me I should never ever have an array inside a > database-table. > So I tried to do it without an array, and got up with this database > structure: > > A table called 'pages' > A table called 'widgets' with columns called 'id' and 'page_id' > And all my widgets ('content_data' and 'comments_data') got an extra > column called 'widget_id' > > Now I wanted to give my widgets a > var $belongsTo = array('widgets'); > > But I can't give my 'widgets'-model a > var $hasMany = array(?); > Cause I don't know which widgets are on a page. > Of course, I could try to associate it with EVERY widget (although I > wouldn't know how), but that would be very slow when I get a lot of > widgets. > > So, how do I give it the right $hasMany-var? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
