Actually you only need one table with the following fields:
username or email
password
group
+ additional fields that might be useful for your application
After login (with AuthComponent) you can check to which group the user
belongs. Depending on the group you can redirect the user to the corre
i'm planning a new project with cakephp and i have a problem.
i want to create multiple access areas and multiple user-tables i.e. like a
shop system:
group 1: customers
group 2: merchants
group 3: affiliate-partners (4. group: admins [this maybe with acl])
every group will have its own area (