cakephp3 - plugin class Table not load

Question

I make a plugin Blog with cakephp3. When I call the url /blog/edit/3, all is good, the form inputs are filled.

I have a class \Blog\Model\Table\ArticlesTable (file location: ROOT/plugins/Blog/src/Model/Table/ArticlesTable.php)

Here the class :

<?php
namespace Blog\Model\Table;

use \Cake\ORM\Table;
use \Cake\Validation\Validator;

class ArticlesTable extends Table
{
  public function initialize(array $config)
  {
    //die('IN ArticlesTable::initialize');
    $this->table('articles');
    $this->primaryKey('id');
    $this->addBehavior('Timestamp');
  }

  public function validationDefault(Validator $validator)
  {
  ...
  }
}

In the debugar, I see the message :

Generated Models

The following Table objects used Cake\ORM\Table instead of a concrete class: Articles

• I check namespace and the case of file
• I run command composer dumpautoloader

But my class is not loaded

Some one has an idea about my problem ?

Thanks

Phil

Answer 1

I resolved the problem. You need to specify the plugin namespace while loading the model:

$this->loadModel('Namespace.TableName');

In my example I changed:

class BlogController extends AppController
{
  public function initialize()
  {
    parent::initialize();
    $this->loadModel('Articles');//<----- HERE
  }
...
}

to

class BlogController extends AppController
{
  public function initialize()
  {
    parent::initialize();
    $this->loadModel('Blog.Articles'); //<----- HERE
  }
...
}

Answer 2

Create the ArticlesTable class in the src/Model/Table folder. The easiest way to do it is using the bake command

bin/cake bake model Articles