Baking in CakePHP

Question

After setting up my database and baking, the model associations declared are not correct.

eg instead of seeing hasOne i see hasAndBelongsToMany

so my question here is for examples of sql tables that would generate the 4 correct associations when baked.

Answer 1

The quick anwser is, if you have a foreign key, bake will try a a hasMany relationship or a hasOne if you deny the first, and follow a belongsTo on the other model. If you have a join table It will try to bake a hasAndBelongsToMany instead.

Answer 2

If you follow Cake conventions, then the bake tool will usually guess the correct relationships.

You should read the model relationships page.