Its not the model's I'm having problems with... it's the setting up of ACL - any ideas?
On Jun 3, 7:17 pm, brian <bally.z...@gmail.com> wrote: > You should clean up your table schema, first to get them in line with > Cake's conventions. It'll save you lots of headaches down the road. > > CREATE TABLE staffs ( > id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, > department_id int(11) default NULL, > logon_code char(10) NOT NULL, > forename char(50) NOT NULL, > surname char(50) NOT NULL, > PRIMARY KEY (id), > ) ; > > CREATE TABLE managers ( > id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, > logon_code varchar(15) NOT NULL, > department_id int(11) default NULL, > SystemAdmin tinyint(1) unsigned default NULL, > PRIMARY KEY (id) > ) ; > > CREATE TABLE departments ( > id int(11) default NULL, > sect_id varchar(50) default NULL, > subsect_id varchar(50) default NULL, > sect_name varchar(50) default NULL, > sect_abbr varchar(50) default NULL, > subsect_name varchar(50) default NULL, > PRIMARY KEY (id) > ) ; > > - all table names are lowercase, plural forms of the model > > - all PK are 'id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment' > > - all FK are singular table name + '_id' (eg. department_id) > > If departments.sect_id is a FK to another table, it should be > section_id and the table named sections (assuming thatsect is short > for section). > > I guess staffs isn't the greatest name. Maybe members would be better. > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Jenski <jenski...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > > > I have a database setup like this (I know it isnt the best setup but > > its out of my power to change it :-( > > > Basically there are 3 levels of users > > - Admin > > - Managers > > - Staff > > > Few notes: > > -Each member of staff belongs to department > > -If the Staffs logon_code appears in the manager table they are a > > Manager, otherwise they are a member of staff > > -If the staffs logon_code appears in the manager table and SystemAdmin > > is set to 1, they are Admin > > > How on earth do I go about setting ACL/Auth for this? Any ideas? > > > CREATE TABLE `tblStaff` ( > > `StaffID` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, > > `dept_id` varchar(5) default NULL, > > `logon_code` char(10) NOT NULL, > > `forename` char(50) NOT NULL, > > `surname` char(50) NOT NULL, > > PRIMARY KEY (`StaffID`), > > ) ; > > > CREATE TABLE `tblManager` ( > > `ManagerID` varchar(15) NOT NULL, > > `logon_code` varchar(15) NOT NULL, > > `dept_id` varchar(5) NOT NULL, > > `SystemAdmin` tinyint(1) unsigned default NULL, > > PRIMARY KEY (`ManagerID`) > > ) ; > > > CREATE TABLE `tblDepartment` ( > > `dept_id` varchar(5) NOT NULL, > > `sect_id` varchar(50) default NULL, > > `subsect_id` varchar(50) default NULL, > > `sect_name` varchar(50) default NULL, > > `sect_abbr` varchar(50) default NULL, > > `subsect_name` varchar(50) default NULL, > > PRIMARY KEY (`dept_id`) > > ) ; --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
