Re: Is this even possible in cake? (model associations with unknown models)

Have you tried using bindModel() (I think that's what it's called)
with dynamic names? That might work...

However, I'm not sure why this is necessary - If you know enough about
the page to widget relations to serialise it in an array, surely you
know enough to do the same things with a proper DB relation?

On Apr 30, 4:54 pm, Evert <Compa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My site is build with a lot of plugins.
> Now, I used to use a 'pages' table that had the column called
> 'widgets'
> the column contained a serialized array which contained information
> about which widgets (models) should be in that page. Something like
> this:
>
> array(
>     [0] => array(
>         'name' => 'content'
>         'args' => array(
>             'id' => 1
>         )
>     )
>     [1] => array(
>         'name' => 'comments'
>         'args' => array(
>             'group_id' => 1
>         )
>     )
> )
>
> Then I had plugin-models called 'Content' and 'Comments' which had
> tables like 'content_data', 'content_settings', 'comments_data' and
> 'comments_settings'.
>
> Now someone told me I should never ever have an array inside a
> database-table.
> So I tried to do it without an array, and got up with this database
> structure:
>
> A table called 'pages'
> A table called 'widgets' with columns called 'id' and 'page_id'
> And all my widgets ('content_data' and 'comments_data') got an extra
> column called 'widget_id'
>
> Now I wanted to give my widgets a
> var $belongsTo = array('widgets');
>
> But I can't give my 'widgets'-model a
> var $hasMany = array(?);
> Cause I don't know which widgets are on a page.
> Of course, I could try to associate it with EVERY widget (although I
> wouldn't know how), but that would be very slow when I get a lot of
> widgets.
>
> So, how do I give it the right $hasMany-var?
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