Re: CakePHP and a normalized database

Clint,Thanks a lot! Your code worked and now I am able to retrieve
information from different tables within the User model.
Now, my next question would be. How would inserting data work? Does
cakephp take care of that automatically as well?
Thanks,
Luis
On Dec 30, 7:56 pm, Clint <ctf...@student.monash.edu> wrote:
> Hi, the following should help (for v1.3)
>
> It joins the User to the Person and then to the Address.. linking the rest of the tables should be similar.
>
> <?php
>
> class User extends AppModel {
>     var $name = 'User';
>
>     var $hasOne = array(
>         'Person' => array(
>             'className'    => 'Person',
>             'foreignKey'   => 'id',
>             'dependent'    => true,
>             ),
>         'Address' => array(
>             'className' => 'Address',
>             'foreignKey' => false,
>             'type' => 'LEFT',
>             'conditions' => array('Address.id = Person.address_id')
>             )
>         );
>
> }
>
> ?>
>
> If you use the foreignKey option when trying to link in Address, it tries to match the User.id to the Address.id, hence why I've set the condition instead. I was hoping that you could do nested 'hasOne' options, but doesn't seem so..
>
> Clint
>
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>
> > Quick question, I have the following normalized MySQL database with
> > tables:
>
> > Users
> >  - id
> >  - username
> >  - password
> >  - person_id
>
> > People
> >  - id
> >  - firstname
> >  - lastname
> >  - address_id
> >  - email_id
>
> > Addresses
> >  - id
> >  - address
> >  - city_id
> >  - state_id
> >  - country_id
> >  - zipcode_id
>
> > Countries
> >  - id
> >  - country
>
> > I have been having problems setting the correct cakephp Model
> > relations between them. Actually, after reading the documentation I'm
> > not really sure if it's even possible to have this kind of databas
> > structure work with cakephp.
>
> > So far this is what I have:
> > Users - belongsTo/hasOne - People (person_id)
> > People - belongsTo/hasOne - Addresses (address_id)
> > Addresses - belongsTo/hasOne - Countries (country_id)
>
> > So, when I use the User model how can I have cakephp return everything
> > from the user's firstname, lastname, to the address including country
> > and states?
> > To make matters more difficult, how can I have cakePHP (using the
> > FormHelper) insert an user account that has the firstname and lastname
> > (this I already got working), and also the address, city, state and
> > country (this I can't figure it out)?
>
> > My issue is that the Countries table for example is related to the
> > Address table but not to the People table directly nor the Users table
> > directly.
>
> > Any help or guidance would be truly appreciated.
>
> > Thanks in advance.
>
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