cakephp在一个联接表中一次联接两个以上的表

Question

I have converted many of my projects across to Cake with success, but I have one that poses a challenge that I am struggling with.

In a typical " hasMany through " join, eg. in the Cake docs, you have 3 tables, Student , Course and CourseMembership . Student and Course hasMany CourseMembership and CourseMembership belongsTo Student and Course .

My question is, is it possible, using normal convention, to join more than two tables together in this way? For example, adding another table, say, Lecturer (forget the real world possibilities of this) would create more possible permutations but can Cake handle this natively?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: here would be the table layout for the join (HTH):

id | student_id | course_id | lecturer_id

EDIT 2: by default, the join table would be called course_students so what I am after is a table called course_lecturer_students with the above layout (obviously it doesn't need to be called that but just to comply with CakePHP naming convention).

Answer 1

Absolutely. You can Join as many tables as you'd like really. Using CakePHP to Join is no different than using MySQL to run a Join query - CakePHP just takes the CakePHP syntax and creates the MySQL (or whatever) query for you.

Side note - Just make sure you're indexing your tables correctly.

Answer 2

You could use Cakephp for

1. Write simple sql as query ( no recomendable )
2. Write join sentences
3. use deep associations ( recomendable )

However you question is not clear and is not possible to determinate which kind of answer you are looking for, or what are you looking for

Probably you could extends with a final result of what you are looking for in order to help you