Question

Controller:

<?php
class VideosController extends ForumAppController {

    /**
     * Controller Name
     * @access public
     * @var string
     */
    public $name = 'Videos';


    public function index() {
        $videos = $this->Video->getVideos();
        $this->set('videos', $videos);
    }

    public function beforeFilter() {    
        parent::beforeFilter();

        $this->Auth->allow('*');

        if (isset($this->params['admin'])) {
            $this->Toolbar->verifyAdmin();
            $this->layout = 'admin';
        }       
        $this->Security->validatePost = false;
        $this->set('menuTab', 'videos');
    }

}

?>

Model:

<?php
class Video extends ForumAppModel {

    public $name = 'Video';

    function getVideos() {

        $vids = $this->find('all', array (
            'order'     =>  array('Video.id DESC')
        ));

      return $vids;
    }

}

?>

I get an error:

Notice (8): Undefined property: VideosController::$Video [CORE/plugins/forum/controllers/videos_controller.php, line 13]

If I do

$this->loadModel('video');

I get an error:

Warning (512): SQL Error: 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'getVideos' at line 1 [CORE/cake/libs/model/datasources/dbo_source.php, line 549]
**Query: getVideos** 

Any ideas what might be causing this?

Answer 1

You code appears to be correct but it seems like CakePHP isn’t trying to load the model from the right place. You can specify the model to load using the $uses variable in your controller.

Because you’re using a plugin, you need to add the name of the plugin in front of the model.

$uses = array('Forum.Video');

CakePHP should handle this on it’s own but some older version of CakePHP had a bug that prevented this from working properly. It appears to be fixed in 1.3.10.

For more details about the $uses variable, see http://book.cakephp.org/view/961/components-helpers-and-uses.