Re: Associating model aliases

Please provide information on how you relates the message model with
the other models?
Enjoy,
John

On Sep 29, 12:52 pm, Mario <mario.calli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> probably a not so difficult question, but I am a newbie to CakePHP and
> would really appreciate some advice.
>
> I have coded something exactly following the situation described inhttp://book.cakephp.org/view/851/Multiple-relations-to-the-same-model
> that is: a User model, a Message model, Sender and Recipient aliases.
> Everything works smoothly.
>
> Then I have a Profile model one-to-one associated with User, here as
> well following the Cookbookhttp://book.cakephp.org/view/80/hasOne
> <?php
> class User extends AppModel {
>     var $name = 'User';
>     var $hasOne = 'Profile';}
>
> ?>
> andhttp://book.cakephp.org/view/81/belongsTo
> <?php
> class Profile extends AppModel {
>     var $name = 'Profile';
>     var $belongsTo = 'User';}
>
> ?>
> Relationship working fine except for the following...
>
> The problem I have is that $this->Message->find('all') in
> MessagesController doesn't return the Profile data for the Sender and
> the Recipient. They are aliases of User, so I can expect that maybe
> some extra code is needed somewhere.
>
> I tried to modify the Profile model into something like:
>   var $belongsTo = array(
>     'User',
>     'Sender' => array(
>       'className' => 'User',
>       'foreignKey' => 'user_id'
>     ),
>     'Recipient'...
>   );
>
> Doesn't work, half expected it, because it seems more important in
> this case to declare that the Sender (Recipient) 'hasOne' Profile. But
> where and how, not having a Sender (Recipient) model?
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Mario
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