Login with Single Table Inheritance

Question

I have an entity Account and two tables inherited with Single Table Inheritance from it: Client and Administrator .

I have a login form that uses the Account table. Once the user is logged in, I get the information like this:

    $account = $this->em->getRepository ( 'Entities\Account' )
   ->findOneByEmail ( $email ) );

I get the account with no problem, but the issue is: how do I find out if the user is a Client or an Administrator? I know I can do get_class and see which class it's using, but I don't think that's the correct way. Any help? Thanks!

Answer 1

if you do not want to use get_class you would do something like this

class Client extends Account
{
    protected $discr  = 'client';
    ...
}

class Administrator extends Account
{
    protected $discr  = 'administrator';
    ...
}

a field in the object (not in the database)

and create getType() method in Acount class