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    <p>I'm attempting to create a CakePHP based web game mostly for practice as well as for the fun of it, but am running into a conundrum trying to figure out an equipment system.</p> <p>I have an Items table that contains all the possible information about an item, including an item_type field that contains an integer value determining what the item type is, and resulting, which information about the item to use.</p> <p>i.e. item_type = '1' means that the item is a hat to use, which means that only power, price, bonuses, and requirements are necessary information. This all works fine.</p> <p>I also have an items_users HABTM table set up in order to store all the currently owned items that each player has, this is also working fine.</p> <p>What I'm trying to figure out is how an equipment system would work. I first thought about an equips table such as:</p> <pre><code> CREATE TABLE `aevum_tf`.`equips` ( `id` INT NOT NULL , `user_id` INT NOT NULL , `hat_id` INT NOT NULL , `wep_id` INT NOT NULL , `offhand_id` INT NOT NULL , `pants_id` INT NOT NULL , `acca_id` INT NOT NULL , `accb_id` INT NOT NULL , `accc_id` INT NOT NULL , `shirt_id` INT NOT NULL , `created` DATETIME NOT NULL , `modified` DATETIME NOT NULL , PRIMARY KEY ( `id` ) , UNIQUE ( `user_id` ) ) ENGINE = InnoDB </code></pre> <p>The only problem with using a system like this is that CakePHP does not support multiple foreign keys for a model.</p> <p>Does anyone have any ideas as to how to implement such a system?</p> <p><em>EDIT</em> The existing HABTM table of items_users is used to store which items a user currently owns. Every time a user acquires a new item, it's id and the user's id is stored in the items_users table. I'm just trying to figure out how to implement an equipment system.</p> <p>By doesn't support multiple foreign keys, I mean CakePHP doesn't natively support multiple foreign keys from one table in another table. My example equips table has 8 foreign keys, all pointing to item_id's.</p> <p>see: <a href="https://trac.cakephp.org/ticket/1923" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://trac.cakephp.org/ticket/1923</a></p>
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