Doctrine: Relating a model to itself using a link table, like "This event is related to to the following other events"
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So in English, the relationship would sound like "This event is related to to the following other events".
My first instinct is to create an EventEvent model, with a first_event_id field and a second_event_id field. Then I would define the following two relationships in the Event model:
$this->hasMany('Event as FirstRelatedEvents', array('local' => 'first_event_id', 'foreign' => 'second_event_id', 'refClass' => 'EventEvent'));
$this->hasMany('Event as SecondRelatedEvents', array('local' => 'second_event_id', 'foreign' => 'first_event_id', 'refClass' => 'EventEvent'));
But I would rather not have to use two relationships on the Event model. Is there a better way to do this?
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