Had an informative discussion on this at Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/936203/storing-sort-order-for-items-held-in-an-habtm-association-cakephp
On Jun 1, 9:31 pm, Hiero <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a HasAndBelongsToMany association setup on Videos and Bins: A > Bin can store n references to Videos, and Videos can belong to n Bins. > > I need to be able to manually set and store the display order of the > Videos within a particular Bin (so the client can have his Videos in a > particular order within the Bin.) My initial thought is to create a > field in Bin that stores an array of Video IDs in the order they need > to appear. Is this the most efficient way to handle this? > > If so, when I then get the HABTM query result, what is the cleanest/ > most efficient way to re-order the returned query to match the sorted > array of ID's? > > Or is there a better way to achieve what I'm trying to do without > using HABTM associations? > > Thanks in advance - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
