cakephp auth component, use two models - cakephp

Question

My site has a public section for employees and back end for admin. It uses 2 different models, Employee and Admin.
I want to use Auth component for employee login and admin login. I know how to setup Auth component to use a Model other than default User model. But can i have auth component use 2 models, one for Employee authentication and other for Admin authentication? I am using admin_ prefix routing.
Is this possible? I searched but all i could found was tutorials on howto make Auth component use models other than User model.
Please advise!
EDIT
I use separate login forms for admin login and employee login. Both use the employee controller, but separate actions.

Answer 1

http://api.cakephp.org/class/auth-component
check the property authenticate, your answer is there!
and more :
http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-libraries/components/authentication.html.
Look at authentication handlers!
Here is an example directly from cake page
<?php
// Basic setup
$this->Auth->authenticate = array('Form');
// Pass settings in
$this->Auth->authenticate = array(
'Form' => array('userModel' => 'Member'),
'Basic' => array('userModel' => 'Member')
);
Just put something else instead of Form and Basic and associate the good Model

Answer 2

Considering you are using two radio buttons for Employee and Admin. Then you can use the following code into the login method.
function login()
{
if ($this->request->is('post'))
{
$logged_in = false;
$login_type = $this->request->data['User']['login_type']
if ($login_type == 'Admin')
{
$this->Auth->authenticate = array('Form' => array('userModel' => 'Admin' ));
}
else //if ($login_type == 'Employee')
{
$this->Auth->authenticate = array('Form' => array('userModel' => 'Employee' ));
}
$this->Auth->constructAuthenticate();
if ($this->Auth->login())
{
$logged_in = true;
/*.... Do what you want............*/
}
}
}