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Adam
Adam

Reputation: 345

CakePHP asking for model table despite useTable = false

I'm creating a contact form to send an email to a specified address. I'm trying to utilize CakePHP model validations and since I don't need a table for the contact model, I've set useTable to false in the contact model. Yet I'm getting an error in the controller function that does the sending. The error is

Missing Database Table Error: Database table contacts for model Contact was not found.

pointing to the line that makes the first call to $this->Contact:

$this->Contact->validates( $this->data );

I thought this was all good to go with the CakePHP framework. Why am I wrong?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 10273

Answers (6)

deizel.
deizel.

Reputation: 11202

Edit: See this answer (and comment) for CakePHP 2.x (model file should be called Contact.php)

CakePHP 1.x - Verify that your model file is called contact.php (lowercase). If it is not, CakePHP won't find your model and and will instead create an "autoModel" on runtime called Contact which uses the contacts table.

Upvotes: 7

Michael
Michael

Reputation: 41

This is a top result to a search but the information is outdated I think.

In CakePHP 2.0+ you need to set $useTable = false; in the model, the model name uses propercase (so it should be Contact and not contact as suggested) and the controller must have $uses = 'Contact'; or $uses = array('Contact'); or cake generates default model properties and tries to load a table that doesn't exist. So both of these things must be set for it to work.

Upvotes: 4

deewilcox
deewilcox

Reputation: 892

Two things made the difference for me -- changing the file name of my model to Contact.php (instead of ContactModel.php) and commenting out var $uses = 'Contact'; in my ContactController.php.

Also, many of the tutorials out there for contact forms are for earlier versions of CakePHP. Be sure to use the correct form input structure. Here is the view for mine in Cake 2.1:

<?php 
    echo $this->Form->create('Contact');
    echo $this->Form->inputs();
    echo $this->Form->end('Send');

?>

Upvotes: 3

stephen mc
stephen mc

Reputation: 771

If it helps anyone, I found that if I had 

var $uses = 'ModelName';

in my controller, it will override useTable. Remove it if you don't need it.

Upvotes: 1

Mathew Attlee
Mathew Attlee

Reputation: 549

If you are using a model without a table you also need to set a schema eg

class Contact extends AppModel {
    var $name = 'Contact';
    var $useTable = false;
    var $_schema = array(
        'name' => array('type' => 'string', 'length' => 255),
        'email' => array('type' => 'string', 'length' => 255),
        'message' => array('type' => 'text')
    );
}

Upvotes: 2

Rob Wilkerson
Rob Wilkerson

Reputation: 41236

If memory serves, you're not actually setting your model:

$this->Contact->set( $this->data );
$this->Contact->validates();

In your code, the model isn't actually populated when you try to validate it.

Upvotes: 2

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