Can't get HABTM right

Hi,

I can't get a HABTM relationship right, I can't get it to show me the results I need. I looked at Cake's documentation and Googled, and I tried differents things, rebuilding it from examples I've found online. I just don't know what I'm doing wrong.

The situation is as following. I have Formats (stored in db table formats) and Accessories (stored in db table accessories). Accessories belongs to one or more Formats. So one accessory can belong to many formats and one format can have different accessories. I made a linking table named formats_accessories (with id, format_id and accessory_id). Then I let cake bake do it's magic. 

My Accessory model:

public $hasAndBelongsToMany = array(

'Format' => array(

'className' => 'Format',

'joinTable' => 'formats_accessories',

'foreignKey' => 'accessory_id',

'associationForeignKey' => 'format_id',

'unique' => 'keepExisting',

'conditions' => '',

'fields' => '',

'order' => '',

'limit' => '',

'offset' => '',

'finderQuery' => '',

'deleteQuery' => '',

'insertQuery' => ''

),

);

My Format model:

public $hasMany = array(

'FormatsAccessorie' => array(

'className' => 'FormatsAccessorie',

'foreignKey' => 'format_id',

'dependent' => false,

'conditions' => '',

'fields' => '',

'order' => '',

'limit' => '',

'offset' => '',

'exclusive' => '',

'finderQuery' => '',

'counterQuery' => ''

)

);

I don't think this is right, but whatever I tried, changing 'FormatsAccessorie' to Format or changing the $hasMany to $hasManyAndBelongsTo, it just won't work!

What I want to accomplish. In the index function of AccessoriesController I need to show the accessories that belong to a certain format_id. So not all accessories (I know how to make that), but just the accessories that belong to a certain format (which id i set in a session). If you go to mywebsite.com/accessories it needs to show the accessories that belongs to a format you already picked (and is stored in a session).

I really hope you can help me. I know google and this group are full of HABTM questions, but I already looked at so many that I've given up because I just can't get it right.

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