How to inherit / extend a content class

Hi there - I am somewhat of a newbie to cake, and have what I believe
is a simple question. I have the following content entities being
submitted to our system: bookmarks, messages, and posts. All of
these entities have a set of underlying similar fields /
relationships. What I would like to do is create a base class
(content) that can be inherited by all of these other content
entities.

Here is a sample of the data elements:

Contents Class:
- id
- user_id
- target_id
- category_id
- created
- modified

Bookmarks Class (inherits from Content)
- id
- content_id
- url
- message

Posts Class (inherits from Content)
- id
- content_id
- name
- picture

etc....

My question is how do I go about doing this ? Is the Content class a
component ? Do I need to create a regular view / controller for it
as well ?

Any direction that could be given would be extremely helpful.

Regards,

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