Re: hasMany relationship question

Thank you!

On Jul 25, 9:58 am, brian <bally.z...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Animal belongsTo User would not work because that would require that
> the animals table had a column user_id. But that would limit each
> Animal to a single User.
>
> User hasOne Animal
> Animal hasMany User
>
> So, nothing special in animals table but users gets an animal_id column.
>
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 7:38 AM, majna<majna...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > User hasOne Animal
> > Animal belogsTo User
>
> > Fore select option:
>
> > contoller
> > (if animals table has title or name)
> > $this->set('animals', $this->User->Animal->find('list');
>
> > view
> > echo $form->select('animal_id',$animals)
>
> > On Jul 25, 5:39 am, Sarah <sarah.e.p.jo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I am not sure how to define the relationship between two tables: users
> >> and animals.
>
> >> Animals is a list of animals
> >> Each user in the user table has one animal
> >> More than one user can have the same animal
>
> >> I'm not sure if this is technically a hasMany relationship (since I
> >> suppose you could say that an animal has several users, although the
> >> user is not an attribute of an animal, an animal is an attribute of a
> >> user).
>
> >> In my user registration form I would like to have a select option for
> >> users to choose an animal (from the table).
>
> >> Should I define a hasMany relationship in my Animal model?  If so what
> >> steps should I take to incorporate the animals into my user form?
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