Ugh! That relies upon enum columns, for one thing. But it also makes
it more than a bit awkward to send a msg to more than one user.

DB tables are cheap. Plan for the future.

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Miles J <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> You dont need that many tables like brian suggested. All you need is
> two, users and messages.
>
> messages:
> - id
> - user_id (sender)
> - recipient_id (receiver)
> - subject
> - content
> - status (read, unread, etc)
> - userFolder (inbox, sent, trash)
> - recipientFolder (inbox, sent, trash)
> - created
> - modified
>
> On Sep 24, 12:14 pm, John Andersen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It is late (here in Latvia) and I am not sure that I remember
>> correctly what I saw while playing around with saving HABTM associated
>> data.
>>
>> If correctly, then providing the associated model as:
>>
>> $data[associatedModel][associatedModel] = array();
>>
>> deletes all the associations between the main model and the associated
>> model.
>>
>> But this is from memory (soft tissue, may fail to retrieve
>> correctly) :D so may somewhat be wrong!
>> Enjoy,
>>    John
>>
>> On Sep 24, 7:35 pm, brian <[email protected]> wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>> > That's a good question. I'm actually not sure how best to unlink a
>> > pair of records. You could always add an id column to the join table
>> > and do $this->Message->InboxMessage->del($id). But you'd need to
>> > determine the $id first.
>>
>> > The other way would be to use a plain SQL:
>> > $this->Message->query('DELETE FROM inboxes_messages WHERE message_id =
>> > '.$message_id);
>>
>> > There's a Model::_deleteLinks() method that does just this but it's
>> > protected. Maybe someone else knows the proper Cake way to do this.
>>
>> > You might also find Mariano's SoftDeletableBehavior of 
>> > use:http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/soft-delete-behavior
>>
>> > Just be aware that it's a few years old and may require some syntax
>> > adjustments. I don't know if it's been kept up to date. Read the
>> > comments in the article.
> >
>

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