""" Many-to-many relationships via an intermediary table For many-to-many relationships that need extra fields on the intermediary table, use an intermediary model. In this example, an ``Article`` can have multiple ``Reporter`` objects, and each ``Article``-``Reporter`` combination (a ``Writer``) has a ``position`` field, which specifies the ``Reporter``'s position for the given article (e.g. "Staff writer"). """ from django.db import models class Reporter(models.Model): first_name = models.CharField(max_length=30) last_name = models.CharField(max_length=30) def __str__(self): return "%s %s" % (self.first_name, self.last_name) class Article(models.Model): headline = models.CharField(max_length=100) pub_date = models.DateField() class Writer(models.Model): reporter = models.ForeignKey(Reporter, models.CASCADE) article = models.ForeignKey(Article, models.CASCADE) position = models.CharField(max_length=100)