John Andersen has it right with the 3 Controller, 4 Model approach. jacmoe almost got there, but saw something shiny and wandered off the path.
On Oct 31, 3:50 am, John Andersen <[email protected]> wrote: > First of all - I suggest you drop the table_singular_name_id format > for your tables primary key and use the CakePHP expected primary key, > which is just named "id" - nothing else! That will make your life > easier! > > Playing with your tables and relationships: > Student hasAndBelongsToMay Course - and vice verse. > Course hasMany Assignment - Assignment belongsTo Course. > Student hasAndBelongsToMany Assignment - and vice verse. > > The mark is in the AssignmentStudent model - which is the > hasAndBelongsToMany model between Student and Assignment. > > Enjoy, > John > > On Oct 30, 3:11 pm, japaternoster <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I am relatively new to database design and have only made some > > relatively simple CakePHP apps, but am currently working on a new > > project with some slightly more complicated database relationships. > > > --Students---------------- > > student_id > > student_name (I want to leave this as a single item) > > year > > > --Courses---------------- > > course_id > > name > > shortname > > type > > > --Assignment---------------- > > assignment_id > > type > > value > > description > > > --Marks---------------- > > mark_id > > result > > > The idea is that each *student* takes x *courses* and each *course* > > has y *assignments*, so each *student* has a *mark* for an > > *assignment* of a *course*. Is this the easiest way of doing this? > > > Also, what does this mean for HABTM/has many relationships? > > > Thanks > > > Jack --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
