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Asked: 2026-05-14T21:33:49+00:00

I’m putting together a system to track customer orders. Each order will have three

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I’m putting together a system to track customer orders. Each order will have three addresses; a Main contact address, a billing address and a shipping address. I do not want to have columns in my orders table for the three addresses, I’d like to reference them from a separate table and have some way to enumerate the entry so I can determine if the addressing is main, shipping or billing. Does it make sense to create a column in the address table for AddressType and enumerate that or create another table – AddressTypes – that defines the address enumeration and link to that table?

I have found other questions that touch on this topic and that is where I’ve taken my model. The problem I’m having is taking that into the cakePHP convention. I’ve been struggling to internalize the direction BelongsTo relationships are formed – the way the documentation states feels backwards to me.

Any help would be appreciated,

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    Table1: address_types (id, name, active)

    Table2: customers (id, name, active, etc.)

    Table3: addresses (id, address_type_id, customer_id, country, city, street, etc.)

    This way customers can have as many addresses as you want. If you need to add a new address type you must not alter the customers or addresses table.

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