I think I may have caused my self more of a headache then necessary and would like to hear your thoughts on my set up. On my site there are 2 different GROUPS a USER can sign up as. Each form creates the USER and corresponding TEACHER profile (table has USER_ID) or STUDENT profile (table has USER_ID). So when either signs up it creates a USER and a TEACHER or STUDENT with the USER_ID being the USER ID. I chose to break the USERS for the TEACHERS and STUDENT because the profiles are completely different and have different validation criteria. Now when add the Auth and ACL I want to now set it so the TEACHER or STUDENT can edit their own contributions to the site. Where I am finding the headache is when checking to see if the user can perform specific actions. For example a TEACHER adds a new test the only person who can edit that test would be the teacher who created it (among many other owner related operation). But when the test was created it was done so by using the teacher id and AUTH checks the User id. Now I am sure I can get the user id front the teacher id but that seems like more work than needed because when it comes to the STUDENT side of the site everything will have to be done the same way to find the USER ID there as well. Another problem is the TEACHERS have a lot of HABTM tables where they can select SUPPLIES , BOOKS, SKILLS...etc related to their TEST or EXAM they create which are all related to the TEACHER thru the teacher id not the user_id. In theory I would like to use only the user id but in my situation is that possible because I choose to break up my users? Thanks for you time and insight to all... Dave
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