Self-Referential ManyToMany Convention in CakePHP

Question

I have an existing data model where I can rename things freely to match CakePHP\'s conventions. I have a type of graph node, where a node can have an arbitrary number of chi

Answer 1

As neilcrookes noted, there are some articles on this on the web about doing this in CakePHP. Here is one of them, using User HABTM User (friends) as an example.

In that linked article, you can ignore everything after the User class definition if you aren't going to be paginating on the model.