How to handle multiple user types

Hi everyone,

I'm just curious how everyone else out there handles different user
types when they have different data associated with them?

I have a system that has guests, members and hosts. Each user type has
many different fields associated with them. Currently I handle it by
having a main user table that has the common data (email, username,
password) and also has a "role" field which stores what type of user
they are.

I then link my user table to the other tables using the $hasOne. In
each of my other tables (guest, member, host) I have all the
particular data associated with that member type.

While I originally felt this was the best way to handle this, I feel
like it's getting messy. Of course, I couldn't hold all those
different field types in one users table. I kept the user table as it
allows for easy integration with the Auth component (I know it can get
difficult to use Auth with many different tables holding usernames and
passwords).

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

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