Setting up controllers and models with multiple tables and dependencies

Hi,

I'm starting off with cakephp and am having some trouble with setting up the controllers and models for a DB design that I've come up with.

I've got a Products table and a Properties table which are independent of each other. I've got a link table product_properties which links up the products to the properties and also has a 'value' field which allows for a value to a particular property of a particular product. This allows me to add new properties or new products at any time without disturbing the existing ones.

To summarise:

products --------< product_properties (1-many)
properties ---------< product_properties (1-many)

A product has many properties, a property may be common to many products.

The book says we should have one controller for each model. In this case, I've got 3 models which would imply I should have 3 controllers. But in this case, wouldn't it make sense to just have one controller (called just products_controller.php) which works on all 3 models? Or have a main controller which controls all the three controllers?

If not, what is the right way to set up controllers for these models?

Apologies if this is a very basic question, but I'm having some trouble getting my head around cakephp and MVC style architecture. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Plasty.

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