Saturday, March 3, 2012

Re: Saving simple associations

In ur for statement use $i++ instead of ++$i :)

Dne sobota, 03. marec 2012 je poĊĦiljatelj FirstTimeBaker <thinkgreat80@gmail.com> napisal:
> Hi all.
>
> I am new with CakePHP and I have the following problem with testing
> associations.
>
> I have two objects: a country and a person. One person can live in one
> country and a country can have many people. I have two test tables as
> follows:
>
> Table countries:
>
> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `countries` (
>  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
>  `name` varchar(20) NOT NULL,
>  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
>  UNIQUE KEY `a` (`name`)
> ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;
>
> Note, that the field name in countries has to be unique.
>
> Table people:
>
> CCREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `people` (
>  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
>  `age` int(11) NOT NULL,
>  `countries_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
>  PRIMARY KEY (`id`,`countries_id`),
>  UNIQUE KEY `name_UNIQUE` (`age`),
>  KEY `fk_persons_countries` (`countries_id`)
> ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;
>
> As you can notice, both tables are associated through the foreign key
> 'countries_id' in people.
>
> I have the corresponding models:
>
> Model Country:
>
> <?php
>        class Country extends AppModel {
>                public $name = 'Country';
>
>                var $useDbConfig = 'test'; // We use the test database.
>
>                public $validate = array ('name' => 'isUnique');
>
>                public $hasMany = array(
>                        'Person' => array(
>                                'className' => 'Person',
>                                'foreignKey'    => 'countries_id'
>                        ));
>        }
> ?>
>
> Model Person:
>
> <?php
>        class Person extends AppModel {
>                public $name = 'Person';
>
>                var $useDbConfig = 'test'; // We use the test database.
>
>                public $belongsTo = array('Country'  => array(
>                                        'className'    => 'Country',
>                                        'foreignKey'   => 'countries_id'
>                        ),);
>        }
> ?>
>
> In people controller I wish to add the following three people:
>
> $people = array
> (
>    array('id' => 1, 'age' => 23, 'country' => 'Belgium'),
>    array('id' => 2, 'age' => 12, 'country' => 'Austria'),
>    array('id' => 3, 'age' => 55, 'country' => 'Belgium')
> );
>
> with the following code:
> for ($i = 0; $i < 3; ++$i)
> {
>   $data['Person'] = array('id' => $people[$i]['id'], 'age' =>
> $people[$i]['age']);
>   $data['Country'] = array('name' =>  $people[$i]['country']);
>
>   $this->Person->saveAll($data);
> }
>
> However, the third person is not saved and no error is reported. I
> would expect for CakePHP to get the id of Belgium and save the third
> person with this id in the countries_id field. Obviously I do not
> understand the associations completely yet. Please help.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Here is My SQL log if you need it:
>
> Query   Affected        Num. rows       Took (ms)       Actions
> SELECT COUNT(*) AS `count` FROM `countries` AS `Country` WHERE
> `Country`.`name` = 'Belgium'    1       1       1
>
> SELECT COUNT(*) AS `count` FROM `countries` AS `Country` WHERE
> `Country`.`name` = 'Belgium'    1       1       1
>
> INSERT INTO `countries` (`name`) VALUES ('Belgium')     1       1       1
> SELECT COUNT(*) AS `count` FROM `people` AS `Person` WHERE
> `Person`.`id` = 1       1       1       2       maybe slow
>
> INSERT INTO `people` (`id`, `age`, `countries_id`) VALUES (1, 23, 1)    1
> 1       1
> SELECT COUNT(*) AS `count` FROM `countries` AS `Country` WHERE
> `Country`.`name` = 'Austria'    1       1       1
>
> SELECT COUNT(*) AS `count` FROM `countries` AS `Country` WHERE
> `Country`.`name` = 'Austria'    1       1       1
>
> INSERT INTO `countries` (`name`) VALUES ('Austria')     1       1       1
> SELECT COUNT(*) AS `count` FROM `people` AS `Person` WHERE
> `Person`.`id` = 2       1       1       1
>
> INSERT INTO `people` (`id`, `age`, `countries_id`) VALUES (2, 12, 2)    1
> 1       1
> SELECT COUNT(*) AS `count` FROM `countries` AS `Country` WHERE
> `Country`.`name` = 'Belgium'    1       1       1
>
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