Hi again Mark :o) HABTM in cake is just a convenience wrapper for
Contact hasMany ContactPhone Phone hasMany ContactPhone ContactPhone belongsTo Contact belongsTo Phone As such the HABTM association when using saveAll() is only expecting the following data ContactPhone.contact_id ContactPhone.phone_id It's never going to create the record Phone.id Phone.phone Then pass Phone.id back into ContactPhone.contact_id ContactPhone.phone_id And save it. And even if it did, how are you going to check if the phone number entered already exists or not in your phone model and select an existing ID rather than creating a duplicate phone number? If this is a HABTM association, why are you only including one phone field in the form? I would seriously consider dropping the idea of using HABTM between user and phone, but if you want to persist there are a lot of advanced things you need to do within this save process to ensure data integrity with beforeValidate and beforeSave within your various models to ensure your data integrity and to reformat your data arrays to then save your Contact record and create your join records to Phone. HTH Paul Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. 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
