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    <p>Firstly, CakePHP will automatigally inflect a <code>people</code> table into a <code>people</code> controller and a <code>person</code> model, so you don't need to call it <code>persons</code>. Then I'd call the lookup table <code>relationships</code> rather than <code>persons_persons</code>.</p> <p>I'd call the fields in your relationships table <code>person_id</code>, <code>relation_id</code> and <code>relation_type_id</code>, and then add an underscore in your <code>relationtypes</code> table name so it becomes <code>relation_types</code>.</p> <p>I think this is more semantic.</p> <p>You could still use a hasAndBelongsToMany association, and make use of the automagic "<a href="http://www.cricava.com/blogs/index.php?blog=6&amp;title=modelizing_habtm_join_tables_in_cakephp_&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1" rel="nofollow noreferrer">with</a>" associations offered by CakePHP (1.2 only) to access the additional data in the HABTM table for relation type.</p> <p>However, I'd be tempted to use:</p> <ul> <li><code>Person</code> hasMany <code>Relation</code></li> <li><code>Relation</code> belongsTo <code>Person</code>, <code>Relation</code>, <code>RelationType</code></li> </ul> <p>In your app, is a persons relationship implied by someone else's relationship to them? I.e. if you find Person.id = 1 you might get all their relations, e.g. Person.id 2, 3 and 4. But if you find Person.id 2, you would not automatically get Person.id = 1, unless there was another record in the relations table that represented that relationship.</p> <p>To achieve this, you can set up another assocation:</p> <ul> <li><code>Person</code> hasMany <code>Relation1</code> with foreignKey <code>person_id</code></li> <li><code>Person</code> hasMany <code>Relation2</code> with foreignKey <code>relation_id</code></li> <li><code>Relation</code> belongsTo <code>Person</code>, <code>Relation</code>, <code>RelationType</code></li> </ul> <p>Note, you can achieve this dual relationship with HABTM too.</p>
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    1. COThis exactly the kind of advice I was looking for. Very clear, insightful, and beneficial. Much thanks.
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