Question

I am developing an authentication system in CakePHP. I have two kind of users; Applicant and Employer. I have a User table and controllers, models and views for each of them:

controllers:
    users_controller.php
    applicants_controller.php
    employers_controller.php

models:
    user.php
    applicant.php
    employer.php

views:
    applicants:
        register.ctp
    employers:
        register.ctp

In this way, when I want to register an Applicant I use the Applicant controller, model and register view. The same for the Employer. But I am repeating myself. What is the best way to implement this? Should I use ACL?

Thanks

Answer 1

If these are your only differences I would go with just one User-table and only set flags accordingly.

For this you would need 2 more table-fields called applicant and employee. Just use tinyint(1) so Cake can use it as boolean value.

In your AppController you then can check (after authing with the AuthComponent) for these two values and allow or deny actions.