Cakephp Help

kiwi · 7 Nov 2010 at 12:56

I'm building a site where there are two tables for users. I considered trying to merge them into one to make life easier but they're just too separate in their structure.

What I'm now struggling with is telling Cakephp that certain areas require either user type login, or one or the other. It seems it can only recognise one login type per site.

Any ideas or hacks?

FabienO · 7 Nov 2010 at 13:23

Well, I haven't tried CakePHP yet... but here's a CodeIgniter video tutorial showing very easily how to do it. "Members Only Area".

http://net.tutsplus.com/page/2/?s=codeigniter
Video Day 6 is the Login form.

Edit: Misread, rather than repost, just removed it. My bad.

kiwi · 7 Nov 2010 at 14:30

Thanks for the help but you missed the most important point: Cakephp by default will only accept one model as an authentication source, I want two, hence 'hack'.

SMB30 · 7 Nov 2010 at 14:41

Can't you just extend the user class?

I'm not familiar with CakePHP but i'm sure it follows that it uses classes.