Best practice for two types of users

[SteveRL]

I'm looking to create 2 (or more) identities, namely students and teachers. I would like to retain the possibility for each type of identity to login to the J! site. The problem is each identity has totally different elements (and lots of them):

student elements = username, pass, email, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n
teacher elements = username pass, email, o, p, q, r

What is the best practice for accomplishing this between Joomla/Fabrik?

 

[cheesegrits]

Not sure what you mean by "each identity has totally different elements".

Are you using different signup / user creation forms, and assigning the to different J! groups in the juser plugin?

-- hugh

 

[SteveRL]

I'm in the planning phase still.
I just meant students will have 50 elements unique to students, and teachers will have 50 elements unique to teachers. For sure I will need to assign different J! groups based on student or teacher.
I haven't explored the juser plugin, and I dont have any user creation forms yet. Will juser plugin help me assign student elements to students, and teacher elements to teachers?

 

[cheesegrits]

Unless you have an overriding need to have students and teachers in the same table, I would create two tables (students and staff), and put a juser plugin on both for creating the J! user and assigning the usergroups.

-- hugh