many-to-many-to-many examples / tutorials / best practice

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Has anyone got or seen a "many to many to many" example/ tutorial anywhere ?

E.g. a model to handle , teacher , room , period

So

teacherA is in room 1 at 11-12 oclock or teacherA and B is in room 2 at 12 - 1 oclock

I want to know what the best way to model this is ? And how to display things like

Room 1 - 11 -12 Teacher A - 12 - 1 Teacher & teacher B ROom 2 etc..

or

Teacher A 11-12 Room1 12 -1 room 2

etc..

Thanks

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Have a look at Josh Susser's Many to Many Dance-Off. It's not quite what you are after but it might help you out:

http://blog.hasmanythrough.com/2006/4/20/many-to-many-dance-off

Also see his other articles on this kind of thing:

http://blog.hasmanythrough.com/associations

Regards, Andy Stewart