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Marc Rasmussen
Marc Rasmussen

Reputation: 20565

CakePHP user control

So i have two models

clients

employees

The main difference between these two are that employees has some different more advanced controls.

Now regardless of what user that logs in i need to set a cookie (what the cookie does doesnt matter just to give you an idea).

Now since my employees has more options and actions than clients there is a seperate index view for the.

Now to my question since both types of users has to set a cookie is it possible to do this from the client login controller meaning that "unknown person tries to log in" -> "checks client model if user exists" if not "check employees controler if user exists" if true -> "set cookie " ->"go to employee view index"

Is this possible and is it a good way to do it. Note that the reason why i need to do this is because i want to create a God like user in the clients table. My client table consists of alot of joins and it would be easier to create a "God like" user that will look the same as a normal client (kind of like a proxy).

Upvotes: 0

Views: 88

Answers (1)

Martin Bean
Martin Bean

Reputation: 39439

I think you’ve gone about this the wrong way.

Ideally, you should have a users table and a corresponding User model, and then use ACL to determine what a user can and can’t do. You can create roles for clients and employees, and set permissions on these groups, and assign each user to a group.

If you have client- and employee-specific data you wish to store, then you can always create these tables/models and set them to belong to a User.

Upvotes: 2

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