user defined table fields

I'm working on a system that needs to allow users to add their own
attributes to the DB. For instance if you had a movies database, I
need to allow the user to go into the attribute configuration and add
"genre" which would allow every record in the movie DB to have a genre
field. When they view a movie, it would need to dynamically render a
view for all the custom attributes based on the attribute
configuration.

I've done this many times in PHP using link tables so I know how to do
it. The biggest hurdle with learning cakePHP is knowing what it can
do. I could code this up manually then find out there was an easy way
to do it. I didn't see anything in the manual about it so I'm just
asking....are there any features of cake that would make this specific
task easy(er)? Or will I have to handle it all manually? Any tips
for those that have done it already?

Thanks,
Mike

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