Re: User HABTM User/Firend (Social Network )

Yeah just package it into a component so that doing the association
both ways isn't a big deal

On Jul 2, 12:02 pm, hugom <ham1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I insert 2 records, uid_1 and uid_2. It's probably a good way to do
> it. It's just an extra step when you do an insert and an extra step
> when you do a delete.
>
> On Jul 2, 1:51 pm, Henrique Machado <henri....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I need a system that associate users from one single table making them
> > friends. Until now, everything goes fine. The problem is when the user 1 is
> > friend of user 2, cake don't understand that user 2 is friend of user 1 too.
>
> > Is there a way to tell Cake to make a "reverse" query? Or I need to insert
> > two records in the table (user_id = 1, friend_id = 2 and user_id = 2,
> > friend_id = 1)?
>
> > I'll try to explain better:
>
> > I created tables: USERS and USERS_FRIENDS.
>
> > *USERS fields:*
>
> > - id, name
>
> > *USERS_FRIENDS fields:*
>
> > - id, user_id, friend_id
>
> > *user.php Model:*
>
> >     var $hasAndBelongsToMany = array(
> >         'Friend' => array(
> >             'className' => 'User',
> >             'joinTable' => 'users_friends',
> >             'foreignKey' => 'user_id',
> >             'associationForeignKey' => 'friend_id',
> >             'with' => 'UsersFriend',
> >             'unique' => false
> >         )
> >     );
>
> > *users_friend.php Model:*
>
> >     var $belongsTo = array(
> >         'Friend' => array(
> >             'className'    => 'Friend',
> >             'joinTable' => 'users',
> >             'foreignKey' => 'friend_id',
> >         ),
> >         'User' => array(
> >             'className'    => 'User',
> >             'joinTable' => 'users',
> >             'foreignKey' => 'user_id',
> >         )
> >     );
>
> > Sorry my english.
>
> > Thanks for help!
>
> > Att,
>
> > Henrique Machado
> > TI Expert

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