Cakephp - Multiple users with different profile fields

Question

I have three different type of users with different columns for profiles.

I currently have Users table and Groups table with Users table linking to Groups.

How can I set it so that it picks up different type of profiles for each group users?

Answer 1

you can use $belongsTo relation for linking for both table, such that every user belongs to some group.

For that you need to create model of user. Try something like following code

class Users extends AppModel {

    var $name = 'Users';
    public $belongsTo = array(
        'Groups' => array(
            'className' => 'Groups',
            'foreignKey' => 'group_id'
        )
    );
}