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Other relations

This chapter discusses less common relations.

Aggregations

It's possible to treat two complementary N-1 relations as one many-to-many relation, thus benefiting from the advantages of a shared list. In RedBeanPHP 4.1+ you can use the aggr() method of a bean to collect the parent beans for each member of an own-list:

    $targets $quest1->aggr'ownQuestTargetList''target''quest' );

This code will iterate over the ownQuestionTargetList and for every questTarget bean in the list it will load the bean in the target property as a bean of type 'quest'. This relation could not have been formed as as shared list because a shared list does not allow aliases. Without aliases the relation would have been a symmetrical one, lacking the notion of direction. Another solution to this problem would be to use the shared list and create a VIEW of quest called target.

One-to-one

One-to-one relations are not used frequently. Traditional 1-1 records are linked by their primary keys. Load them like this:

    list( $author$bio ) = R::loadMulti'author,bio'$id );

This loads an author and a biography with the same ID. You need to make sure the IDs are in sync yourself.

In RedBeanPHP one-to-one relations are an anti-pattern, the fields should belong to the same bean. This method has been added for compatibility reasons only, try to avoid it!

Polymorph relations

To load a bean whose type is determined by another column:

    $ad $page->poly'contentType' )->content;

This code returns the bean referred to in content_id using the bean type specified in column content_type. If content_type contains the value 'advertisement' the content will be a bean of type 'advertisement'.

This is an anti-pattern in RedBeanPHP, do not use this functionality unless you have to.
Use poly() to retrieve polymorph data from an external or legacy database only.


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