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diff --git a/demos/blog-tutorial/protected/pages/Day2/CreateAR.page b/demos/blog-tutorial/protected/pages/Day2/CreateAR.page
index 00ac1166..c8684ee0 100644
--- a/demos/blog-tutorial/protected/pages/Day2/CreateAR.page
+++ b/demos/blog-tutorial/protected/pages/Day2/CreateAR.page
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 <h1>Creating Active Record Classes</h1>

 

 <p>

-We need to create two <a href="http://www.pradosoft.com/demos/quickstart/?page=Database.ActiveRecord">Active Record</a> classes, <tt>UserRecord</tt> and <tt>PostRecord</tt>, to represent data records in the <tt>users</tt> and <tt>posts</tt> tables, respectively. Active Record classes must extend from the base class <tt>ActiveRecord</tt>, and their properties must match exactly to the fields of the corresponding tables.

+We need to create two <a href="http://www.pradosoft.com/demos/quickstart/?page=Database.ActiveRecord">Active Record</a> classes, <tt>UserRecord</tt> and <tt>PostRecord</tt>, to represent data records in the <tt>users</tt> and <tt>posts</tt> tables, respectively. Active Record classes must extend from the base class <tt>ActiveRecord</tt>, and must define property names that matches with the field names of the corresponding table.

 </p>

 

 <p>

@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ To better organize our directories, we create a new directory <tt>protected/data
 </p>

 

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-  <paths>

-    <using namespace="Application.database.*" />

-  </paths>

+<paths>

+  <using namespace="Application.database.*" />

+</paths>

 </com:TTextHighlighter>

 

 <p>

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Instead of writing the classes manually, we will use the <a href="http://www.pra
 Under the <tt>blog</tt> directory, run the following command to enter into the interactive mode of the command line tool:

 </p>

 

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+<com:TTextHighlighter CssClass="source cli">

 php path/to/prado-cli.php shell .

 </com:TTextHighlighter>

 

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ php path/to/prado-cli.php shell .
 We should see

 </p>

 

-<com:TTextHighlighter CssClass="source" Language="text">

+<com:TTextHighlighter CssClass="source cli" Language="text">

 Command line tools for Prado 3.1.0.

 ** Loaded PRADO appplication in directory "protected".

 PHP-Shell - Version 0.3.1

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ PHP-Shell - Version 0.3.1
 At the prompt, enter the following two commands to create <tt>UserRecord</tt> and <tt>PostRecord</tt> classes:

 </p>

 

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+<com:TTextHighlighter CssClass="source cli" Language="text">

 >> generate users Application.database.UserRecord

 

 >> generate posts Application.database.PostRecord

@@ -70,17 +70,18 @@ If we check the <tt>PostRecord</tt> class file, we should see the following cont
 <com:TTextHighlighter CssClass="source" Language="php">

 class PostRecord extends TActiveRecord

 {

-	const TABLE='posts';

-	public $post_id;

-	public $author;

-	public $create_time;

-	public $title;

-	public $content;

-

-	public static function finder($className=__CLASS__)

-	{

-		return parent::finder($className);

-	}

+    const TABLE='posts';

+    public $post_id;

+    public $author_id;

+    public $create_time;

+    public $title;

+    public $content;

+    public $status;

+

+    public static function finder($className=__CLASS__)

+    {

+        return parent::finder($className);

+    }

 }

 </com:TTextHighlighter>

 

@@ -92,17 +93,18 @@ As we see, for each field in the <tt>posts</tt> table, the class has a correspon
 We can use the command line tool to do some testing with our newly created Active Record classes. Still in the interactive mode of the command line tool, we enter a PHP statement and should see the following. Interested readers may try some other PHP statements, such as <tt>UserRecord::finder()->findAll()</tt>.

 </p>

 

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+<com:TTextHighlighter CssClass="source cli" Language="text">

 >> PostRecord::finder()->findAll()

 array

 (

     [0] => PostRecord#1

     (

         [post_id] => '1'

-        [author] => 'admin'

+        [author_id] => 'admin'

         [create_time] => '1175708482'

         [title] => 'first post'

         [content] => 'this is my first post'

+        [status] => '0'

         [TActiveRecord:_readOnly] => false

         [TActiveRecord:_connection] => null

         [TComponent:_e] => array()

@@ -110,4 +112,67 @@ array
 )

 </com:TTextHighlighter>

 

+<h1>Relationship Between Posts and Users</h1>

+<p>

+Recall that there was a foreign key relationship between the <tt>users</tt> and <tt>posts</tt> table. The entity-relationship diagram is shown below for convienence.

+</p>

+

+<img src="<%~ ER.gif %>" class="output" />

+

+<p>

+From the entity-relationship diagram above, we see that the <tt>posts</tt> table contains a field named <tt>author_id</tt>. This <tt>author_id</tt> field is a foreign key to the reference table <tt>users</tt>. In particular, the values in the  <tt>author_id</tt> field should be of that from the <tt>users</tt> table's <tt>username</tt> field. One of the consequence of this relationship, thinking in terms of objects, is that each "post" belongs to an "author" and one "author" may have many "posts".

+</p>

+

+<p>

+We can model the relationship between <tt>posts</tt> and <tt>users</tt> table in Active Record by modifying the <tt>PostRecord</tt> and <tt>UserRecord</tt> classes as follows.

+</p>

+

+<com:TTextHighlighter CssClass="source" Language="php">

+class PostRecord extends TActiveRecord

+{

+    //... properties and methods as before

+

+    public $author; //holds an UserRecord

+

+    protected static $RELATIONS=array

+    (

+        'author' => array(self::BELONGS_TO, 'UserRecord'),

+    );

+}

+</com:TTextHighlighter>

+

+<p>

+The static <tt>$RELATIONS</tt> property of <tt>PostRecord</tt> defines that the property <tt>$author</tt> belongs to an <tt>UserRecord</tt>. In <tt>array(self::BELONGS_TO, 'UserRecord')</tt>, the first element defines the relationship type, in this case <tt>self::BELONGS_TO</tt>. The second element is the name of related record, in this case an <tt>UserRecord</tt>. The <tt>UserRecord</tt> is defined similarly below, the difference is that, the user record has many <tt>PostRecord</tt>s.

+</p>

+

+<com:TTextHighlighter CssClass="source" Language="php">

+class UserRecord extends TActiveRecord

+{

+    //... properties and methods as before

+

+    public $posts=array(); //holds an array of PostRecord

+

+    protected static $RELATIONS=array

+    (

+        'posts' => array(self::HAS_MANY, 'PostRecord'),

+    );

+}

+</com:TTextHighlighter>

+

+<p>

+An array of <tt>UserRecord</tt> with and its corresponding posts may be fetched as follows.

+</p>

+

+<com:TTextHighlighter CssClass="source" Language="php">

+$users = UserRecord::finder()->withPosts()->findAll();

+</com:TTextHighlighter>

+

+<com:TipBox>

+The method <tt>withXXX()</tt> (where XXX is the relationship property name, in this case, <tt>Posts</tt>) fetches the corresponding <tt>PostRecords</tt> using a second query (not by using a join). The <tt>withXXX()</tt> method accepts the same arguments as other finder methods of TActiveRecord, e.g. <tt>withPosts('status = ?', 0)</tt>.

+</com:TipBox>

+

+<p>

+Further detailed documentation can be found in the quickstart <a href="http://www.pradosoft.com/demos/quickstart/?page=Database.ActiveRecord">Active Record</a> docs.

+</p>

+

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