Re: habtm saving: is my really simple solution fragile? using a model for habtm-table

AFAIK, that's actually fine- any time I've used a join table to store
meta/more than foreign keys I usually end up doing this... The 1.2
cookbook actually recommended this, but in 1.3 it just says
"If you plan to add any extra information to this table, it's a good
idea to add an additional primary key field (by convention 'id') to
make acting on the table as easy as any other model." (http://
book.cakephp.org/view/1044/hasAndBelongsToMany-HABTM)
Which isn't as explicit but definitely implies that it's ok.

On Sep 26, 1:50 pm, Tomfox Wiranata <tomfox.wiran...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi everyone,
>
> I found this habtm saving tutorial on the net and it wont work for me:http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/add-delete-habtm-behavior
>
> it uses both models in the relation and combines them to save or
> delete data in the habtm-relation. now I had Problems with habtmAdd
> and habtmDelete. some weird things happen...
>
> So instead i did it my own way and created a model for my habtm-
> relation:
>
> class ProductsCategories extends AppModel
> {
>
>         var $name = ProductsCategories';
>         var $useTable = 'products_categories';
>
> }
>
> so everytime a user hits the "save" button to save a relation i do
> this really simple code using my newly created model
>
>                                         $this->data['ProductsCategories']['user_id']= $user_id;
>                                         $this->data['ProductsCategories']['product_id']= $pr_id;
>                                         $this->data['ProductsCategories']['visible']= "-1";
>                                         $saved = $this->ProductsCategories->save($this->data);
>
> ... instead of the more complex one from the tutorial. and it seems to
> work. now the big question..
>
> What is wrong with my code? I am using 1.3. is this not stable?
> insecure?`will my pc explode? ;)
> I dont trust my "skills" here.....it just seems too easy...
>
> i am really curios here :) thanks a lot

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