[DataObjects] many-to-many relationship?

I have a question regarding DataObjects. I have a situation where I need to join a many-to-many relationship. I'm doing this with an extra table in the middle. Here's the general idea: table1 join_table table2 id<----------------------------table1_id . . table2_id--------------------------->id . . . . I would like to be able to load all of table2's related data into the table1 dataobject. I can do this manually by looping through the links like this: $link = $this->getLink('id', 'join_table', 'table1_id'); do { $table2Obj = $link->getLink('table2_id','table2','id'); $this->myVar[] = $table2Obj->getStuff(); } while($link->fetch()); Is there a cleaner way to do this? Is there a way that I can establish a relationship like this in my .ini file? I would like to be able to do getLinks() and have all this data loaded in. Thanks, Ryan --------- http://homepage.mac.com/ryansking/