I've got the same issue on a project I'm working on. Any solutions you came up with Dylan?
On Monday, August 6, 2012 4:02:15 PM UTC-6, Dylan Jennings wrote: > > Hello > > I'm currently building a SaaS application using cakePHP. I've worked with > cakePHP before a few times and I'm comfortable with how it all works. > > So, I have an `accounts` table which holds information about each tenant, > and then a `users` table aswell, which will contain the users for each > account/tenant. New users will initially be added through a basic plain PHP > or WordPress front-end, so there won't be the need to create new `accounts` > through the cakePHP side of the app. > > Just to be clear, each tenant will be on a subdomain of the main domain. > For example, http://dylan.mycakeapp.dev/ could be a tenant. The front-end > site will be held in the root of the site, http://mycakeapp.dev/. When > new users sign up on the front-end site, their `accounts` record and a > single `users` record will be created, they will get redirected to their > subdomain, and the cakePHP app will take it from there. > > So here's the problem. I want all tenants to share the same database, > separated by an 'account_id' which will be in all tables. I'm not 100% on > this, but I think the correct approach is to use the 'beforeSave', > 'beforeDelete' and 'beforeFind' callbacks in the model, and simply add the > `account_id` as a query condition. The problem comes when I'm trying to > detect which tenant to use, because I can't use the database within the > model. > > Does anyone have any experience with SaaS/multi-tenancy apps in cakePHP, > and can help? Thanks in advance. > > Cheers > -- Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
