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# Feb 20th 2020, 12:34 spriz @dereuromark No no, I was just surprised that it works in 3.x - I have never seen the syntax before!
# Feb 20th 2020, 12:32 viraj.khatavkar going further, do we have some form of sync method for belongsToMany where in I can pass an array of ids and those are the ones which will be kept in the join table?
# Feb 20th 2020, 11:22 dereuromark I cant do everything on my own.
# Feb 20th 2020, 11:22 dereuromark all fine in 3.x code here. you are free to PR updates though :)
# Feb 20th 2020, 11:21 spriz `$actsAs`
# Feb 20th 2020, 11:21 spriz And this one? :O https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-sandbox/blob/master/plugins/Sandbox/src/Model/Table/SandboxPostsTable.php#L33-L36
# Feb 20th 2020, 11:21 spriz what sorcery is this one? :) :) https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-sandbox/blob/master/plugins/Sandbox/src/Model/Table/SandboxPostsTable.php#L41-L56 cake 2.x syntax?
# Feb 20th 2020, 11:19 dereuromark hmm, maybe the Tags behavior does this.. : ) ok, then you are probably right.
# Feb 20th 2020, 11:19 spriz Wat! I have had to add the `$this->belongsToMany('Roles')` and `$this->hasMany('UsersRoles')`
# Feb 20th 2020, 11:18 dereuromark you only need the manual one if you want to provide custom table and more logic.
# Feb 20th 2020, 11:18 dereuromark @spriz Shouldnt the HABTM relation auto provide the pivot table? afaik it does
# Feb 20th 2020, 11:18 spriz @viraj.khatavkar you will need to have `$this->hasMany('UsersRoles')` in `UsersTable` :)
# Feb 20th 2020, 11:18 dereuromark Yeah, in my case with tags the pivot table is setup as "tagged" - thus the idehelper added https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-sandbox/blob/master/plugins/Sandbox/src/Model/Table/SandboxPostsTable.php#L10-L11 , so $this->Tagged->updateAll() etc then.
# Feb 20th 2020, 11:13 viraj.khatavkar thanks, will see how that goes..
# Feb 20th 2020, 11:10 dereuromark usually $roles->roles_users etc, depending on your relation setup.
# Feb 20th 2020, 11:09 dereuromark usually you have access, and If you used IdeHelper to generate the annotations for IDE auto complete and discoverability, you find them even by just typing the first letter :)
# Feb 20th 2020, 11:09 dereuromark You need to go to the pivot table
# Feb 20th 2020, 11:07 viraj.khatavkar I am having a hard time thinking the syntax here. so would following work? - `$roles->users->updateAll()`? I don’t think so because it will update the users table right?
# Feb 20th 2020, 11:06 dereuromark atomic queries always work on any table.
# Feb 20th 2020, 11:05 dereuromark sure.
# Feb 20th 2020, 11:05 viraj.khatavkar Is it possible to run `updateAll` on the join table in a belongsToMany association? The join table doesn’t have it’s own model. Eg. I have a `roles` , `users` and `roles_users` tables. I want to bulk update on the `roles_users` table.
# Feb 20th 2020, 11:04 tomrwaller No worries - thank you for having a look anyway, much appreciated!
# Feb 20th 2020, 11:03 challgren Hmm sorry thats my only solution, don’t really know the forms that well
# Feb 20th 2020, 11:03 tomrwaller Thanks @challgren - I swapped out the input for the below but I'm still seeing the same behaviour. `echo $this->Form->input('associated_technologies_.ids', array(`                         `'type' => 'select',`                         `'multiple'=>'checkbox',`                          `'options' => $associatedTechnologies` `));`
# Feb 20th 2020, 10:58 challgren I think you need a ‘multiple’ => ‘checkbox’ there for associated_technologies
# Feb 20th 2020, 10:44 slackebot actually selected.
# Feb 20th 2020, 10:44 tomrwaller If I debug the data on the add the request looks like this: ```[ 'recommendation_group_id' => '1', 'name' => 'e1', 'recommendation' => 'e1', 'rationale' => 'e1', 'primary_technology_id' => '1', 'associated_technologies' => [ '_ids' => '4' ], 'assessments' => [ '_ids' => '2' ]``` I was expecting to see an array in _ids => 4 as I selected 4 entries in the select but it looks like it is giving a count, not a list of ids I
# Feb 20th 2020, 10:42 tomrwaller This is what I have in my add.php.
# Feb 20th 2020, 10:41 tomrwaller echo $this->Form->control('primary_technology_id', ['options' => $primaryTechnologies]);echo $this->Form->control('associated_technologies._ids', ['options' => $associatedTechnologies]);
# Feb 20th 2020, 10:41 tomrwaller That's my RecommendationsTechnologiesTable.
# Feb 20th 2020, 10:40 tomrwaller `$this->belongsTo('Recommendations', [`             `'foreignKey' => 'recommendation_id',`             `'joinType' => 'INNER',`         `]);`         `$this->belongsTo('Technologies', [`             `'foreignKey' => 'technology_id',`             `'joinType' => 'INNER',`         `]);`
# Feb 20th 2020, 10:40 tomrwaller That's my RecommendationsController.
# Feb 20th 2020, 10:40 slackebot           `'targetForeignKey' => 'technology_id',`             `'joinTable' => 'recommendations_technologies',`         `]);`
# Feb 20th 2020, 10:40 tomrwaller `$this->belongsTo('PrimaryTechnologies', [`             `'className' => 'Technologies',`             `'foreignKey' => 'primary_technology_id',`             `'joinType' => 'INNER',`         `]);`         `$this->belongsToMany('AssociatedTechnologies', [`             `'className' => 'Technologies',`             `'foreignKey' => 'recommendation_id',`  
# Feb 20th 2020, 10:39 slackebot Recommendations I have defined two associations to Technologies. Trouble is, the multiselect on add.php doesn't set the Associated Technologies. The Primary Technology does however get set.
# Feb 20th 2020, 10:39 tomrwaller Hey all - would someone mind casting their eyes over my models? Not sure I'm doing this right. I have Technologies and I have Recommendations. They are joined using the recommendations_technologies table. In the recommendation, I have two fields, one is Primary Technology which is a choice of one from the technologies table, and another field Associated Technologies which can be multiple entries from the technology field. So essentially in
# Feb 20th 2020, 09:31 alexdd55976 yeah.. i figured it out.. the docs have been better then expected :)
# Feb 20th 2020, 09:23 challgren @alexdd55976 do you mean when you run `bin/cake bake ….`
# Feb 20th 2020, 08:32 alexdd55976 ah got it
# Feb 20th 2020, 08:30 alexdd55976 is there a way to change bake templates so they won't be overwritten during an update
# Feb 20th 2020, 08:29 christianjohn.gss i'll keep that in mind.