Re: Modelling associations, 2 tables/models

In your DishType model, you have
var $belongsTo = 'DishType';

It should be
var $belongsTo = 'Dish;

yes?

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:58 AM, holub.michal@gmail.com
<holub.michal@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all....I've got the following data model
>
> dishes
>  - id (PK)
>  - name
>  - dish_type_id (FK to dish_types)
>
> dish_types
>  - id (PK)
>  - name
>
> menus
>  - id (PK)
>
> dish_menus
> - id (PK)
> - dish_id (FK to dishes)
> - menu_id (FK to menus)
>
> now, my associations look like the following...
>
> class Dish extends AppModel {
>        var $hasAndBelongsToMany = array('Menu' => array('with' =>
> 'DishMenu'));
>        var $belongsTo = 'DishType';
> }
>
> class DishMenu extends AppModel {
>        var $belongsTo = array('Dish', 'Menu');
> }
>
> class DishType extends AppModel {
>        var $belongsTo = 'DishType';
> }
>
> class Menu extends AppModel {
>        var $hasAndBelongsToMany = array('Dish' => array('with' =>
> 'DishMenu'));
> }
>
> Now If I load a menu and do pr($this->Menu->find('first'));
>
> it prints this
>
> [Menu] => Array
>        (
>            [id] => 1
>            [created] => 2009-04-23 15:16:38
>            [forday] => 2009-04-20
>        )
>
>    [Dish] => Array
>        (
>            [0] => Array
>                (
>                    [id] => 1
>                    [name_en] => Curried Fish
>                    [name_cs] => xxx
>                    [dish_type_id] => 1
>                    [DishMenu] => Array
>                        (
>                            [id] => 1
>                            [menu_id] => 1
>                            [dish_id] => 1
>                        )
>
>                )
>
>
> So far all cool, menu-dish m:n works fine...the only problem that I'd
> like to know the dish type. The pr listing shows only attribute
> [dish_type_id] => 1 but no class DishType...why is that?
>
> Thanks, Michal
> >
>

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