Thanks Grant, I appreciate your help. I think you are right in regards to database etc... one database would be much easier to manage etc....
In terms of layout, it will function similar to a cms in that user should be able to modify template, menu items etc.... so I guess that the ability for them to create a template or choose one from a list is a requirement, I don't think that it should be too hard to implement, if I remember right there is a variable called $this->layoutpath which can be altered for individual layouts so will give that a go and see how we go. Thanks Again. Cam On Jan 31, 12:36 pm, "Grant Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would not recommend each account having their own database, unless > sheer size is a problem (ie each account's data is gigabytes) - it is > certainly simpler, and I would imagine more efficient, to use a single > database. > > Logging in via a subdomain / main domain is really an apache issue - > it shouldn't really affect your app (other than perhaps a skin change > when accessed from a subdomain). > > As for customisation per account, I guess this depends on what needs > to be done. I would hope that simply a unique CSS file per account > would be enough, which should be fairly simple (just a check in your > layout file to include a custom CSS). If you really need to change > functionality and output per account... I would still hope that you > could have account attribute fields, and your controllers / views > check these attributes as to how exactly to operate. But if you > expect quite different functionality for an account, making a new app > sounds like a good idea. > > In our app the login is an Operator, and all data types have an > operator_id field. In our AppController beforeFilter we check that an > operator is logged in to access any action, and in the AppModel > beforeFind all query conditions are modified to limit only to the > current operator. This way it's fairly automatic that the logged in > operator can only see / interact with their own data (occasionally > need some additional checks in each action - ie delete). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
