The YouTube video looks like what I’m talking about, although without any verbal explanation it’s pretty hard to tell what’s going on in the video. Yes, I’m talking about multiple fields for each child record. It’s not at all like tagging where you’re simply attaching multiple tags to a master record, another commonplace, also a vitally necessary component of any modern day web application.
I’m completely dumbfounded that these two very different but completely commonplace components cause so much confusion in the CakePHP forum. I was thinking that each of them would almost be built into Cake itself because they are so very commonplace. Failing that, there should be plugins for each them listed at the very top of the plugins page because you simply cannot build a web application that’s beyond trivial without them.