Re: Simple relationship problem

How about:

Seller Model:

belongsTo agency

Agency Model:

hasMany seller

Because Agency doesn't really belong to the seller... an agency has many sellers (if I understand you correctly) and a seller belongs to an agency

2009/6/30 Bryan Paddock <bryanpaddock@gmail.com>

Hey JD,

Ah... I'm confused as to why I would need a HABTM and a join table for
a fairly simple relationship.

example of the structure:

Seller.id
Seller.name
Seller.agency_id
etc

and

Agency.id
Agency.name
etc

Each seller can only belong to one agency.
Each agency can have any number of sellers.

I've defined $hasOne and $belongsTo but cake complains that there is
no agency.seller_id field which is correct because that would imply
that each agency can only have one seller.

Hmmmmm.....

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:25 PM, JD Daniels<jd@internetguys.ca> wrote:
> You need to look at hasAndBelongsToMany
>
> http://book.cakephp.org/view/83/hasAndBelongsToMany-HABTM
>
> Bryan Paddock wrote:
>
> Argh.. I hate gmail shortcut keys.
>
> Anyways continuing mail:
>
> Heya all,
>
> Theres something I'm not doing right here...
>
> I have a User model which has one Seller model linked to it which in
> turn can have an Agency model linked to it.
>
> User Model:
> hasOne seller.
>
> Seller Model:
>  belongsTo user
>
> Agency Model:
> belongsTo seller
>
> Now when I call $this->User->find('all') it complains that there is no
> foreign key in the agency table. That would be impossible because then
> that would mean only one agency can belong to one seller.
>
> How do I set it up so that any number of agencies can belong to any
> number of sellers? I'm missing something really stupid here....
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bryan
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Bryan Paddock<bryanpaddock@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> Heya all,
>
> Theres something I'm not doing right here...
>
> I have a User model which has one Seller model linked to it which in
> turn can have an Agency model linked to it.
>
> User Model:
> hasOne seller.
> Seller Model: belongsTo user
> Agency Model: belongsTo seller
>
>
>
>
>
> >
>

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