Question

I am creating multiple associations in one go and there are a few problems when it comes to saving.

I have the following code:

<?php
foreach($userData as $user) {
    $data = array('User' => array('id' => $user['id']), 'Site' => array('id' => $user['site_id']));
    $this->User->save($data);
}
?>

I have experimented with formatting the data array in different ways although I always encounter the same problems. Either the previous entries get moved when a new one is inserted or the current one gets updated.

I could just use the following although I need a behavior to trigger.

$this->User->SiteUser->save($data);

Edit: Also $this->User->create(); doesn’t seem to do much.

Answer 1

The IRC helped work out what was wrong, once the unique key was set to false everything was able to save correctly.

//In the user model
var $hasAndBelongsToMany = array(
  'Site' => array(
    'className' => 'Site',
    'unique' => false
  )
);