Cake doesn't support the same functionality that the Rails ActiveRecord
supports with the 'type' field.
I think I'm just going to treat all of my people classes as separate
objects, and tie them all to a UserAccount through a belongsTo/hasOne
relationship. That way, everyone can authenticate on
I'm working on designing the database schema and model for an
application that involves Administrators, SalesPeople, Designers,
Customers, etc. They all share common attributes such as firstname,
lastname, email, phone, password, etc.
Traditionally, I've had a People table with the shared
From a high-level design perspective, implementing something like this
in Cake would be about the same as in Ruby on Rails. As far as
table/class design, you could have a Person class which extends Model,
and is extended by SalesPerson, Designer etc. (allowing the use of
shared logic).
To your
