Resuable models

[eluser]jedd[/eluser]
[quote author="Treeda" date="1249407944"]
(please ignore that i could use the same table).
[/quote]

Actually .. I don't think I will.

At the moment you're asking for help to resolve a problem of your own creation, and you made the mistake of revealing that you not only know you're making a mistake, but you know how to fix it.

So .. go and fix your schema.

Having two mostly-the-same models, and two mostly-the-same tables containing book/magazine information, and two mostly-the-same tables containing book-comments/magazine-comments - is just plain silly.

And if you reckon the problems will be all over once you work out how to re-use a model .. well, allow me to disabuse you of this notion. A bad design sticks around like forever.