Hello fellow monks,
hope this is the right place to post this...

I recently found out about Class::DBI and I'm loving it.

While attempting to represent a Many-To-Many relationship (for my shopping cart) I ran into a problem:
my table has 2 fields (user_id and item_id), I can add a relationship by using find_or_create({user_id => 1, item_id => 2}) however if I try to delete a relationship I run into lots of trouble.

Since user_id is taken as the "Primary" key if I Cart->delete(user_id => 1, item_id => 2) all relationships containing user_id = 1 are deleted (I want only the one with item_id = 2 to go away). I thought of creating a junk field in the DB and labeling it as the primary key but that is a waste of a field that will never actually be used. I also tried using Class::DBI::Join but it is broken and not maintained.

Please suggest a module or method to get around this, thanks in advance!!

In reply to Many-to-many with Class::DBI by Anonymous Monk

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