Cakephp表的不同后缀

Question

I have the following requirement:

to create db tables with the names like:

topics_group1

topics_group2

topics_group3

topics_group4

Is there any way to create model "TopicsGroup" and associate that with different table names based on suffix in cakephp?

P.S. please do NOT suggest to create different table for groups and another table to map group & topics. Thanks

Answer 1

in the model you should have:

class TopicsGroup extends Model{
    public $useTable = 'topics_group1';
}

but I don't know how to dynamically change the suffix in a Cake way, you could just have 3 Models(TopicsGroup1 ...)