How Many HABTM relationships in cakephp is too many?
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Hi all, I'm struggling with deciding how many HABTM relationships I really need in my cakephp app. I guess I don't quite get what "has" truly means. I don't want to have more HABTM tables than necessary. Here's what I have in my database:
Users Properties Leases Payments Repairs
user HABTM properties, user HABTM leases, user HABTM users, user HABTM repairs, property hasMany repairs, property hasMany leases, lease hasMany repairs.
Also, I have two aliases for my users model (manager and tenant). This is one of the reasons I ended up with so many HABTM relationships, but I'm not sure it's necessary.
Do I have too many user HABTM relationships? Would it be better to just have cake recurse through my models?
Thanks!
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