ORMAssociation (namespace)

Namespace Cake\ORM\Association

Class summary

• BelongsTo

  Represents an 1 - N relationship where the source side of the relation is related to only one record in the target table.

• BelongsToMany

  Represents an M - N relationship where there exists a junction - or join - table that contains the association fields between the source and the target table.

• HasMany

  Represents an N - 1 relationship where the target side of the relationship will have one or multiple records per each one in the source side.

• HasOne

  Represents an 1 - 1 relationship where the source side of the relation is related to only one record in the target table and vice versa.

Traits summary

• DependentDeleteTrait

  Implements cascading deletes for dependent associations.

• ExternalAssociationTrait

  Represents a type of association that that needs to be recovered by performing an extra query.

• SelectableAssociationTrait

  Represents a type of association that that can be fetched using another query