Re: Ideas about models and associations

Could you please provide some code snippets as I don't see the
difference between our approaches?

Siegfried Hirsch wrote:
> How about defining an ProfilesController as the base class for the
> other controllers for your different models.
>
> That what we have done in a similar case, where we had contacts and
> people and companies
> depending on the ContactsController.
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Günther Theilen <theilen@eqi.de> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm working on a new project and right now I'm struggling a bit to put
>> the requirements together in a proper cake-like way.
>>
>> I use Auth/ACL which is set up and works fine. The users who can log-in
>> belong to three different groups. These groups are defined by a field
>> "role_id" in the user table.
>>
>> Now I want to add profiles for the users. The problem is that each group
>> has a different type of profile with different fields in it so I defined
>> three models for the profiles.
>>
>> My first idea was to do something like this in my user model:
>>
>> var $hasOne = array(
>> 'AdminProfile' => array(
>> 'className' => 'AdminProfile',
>> 'conditions' => 'User.role_id = 1'
>> ),
>> 'EditorProfile' => array(
>> 'className' => 'EditorProfile',
>> 'conditions' => 'User.role_id = 2'
>> ),
>> 'ReviewerProfile' => array(
>> 'className' => 'ReviewerProfile',
>> 'conditions' => 'User.role_id = 3'
>> )
>> );
>>
>> Which seems to work to a degree but is a bit of a hassle when it comes
>> to editing the profiles and validating the form data.
>>
>> How would you solve this?
>>
>> Regards
>> Guenther
>>
>
>
>

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