Question

I am currently working in a controller called Content. In this controller, I have a function that will be called when someone goes on to the homepage, and most of the data will be pulled from the Content model.

However, I want to display data from another model called Phones. When I type this code:

$phones = $this->Phone->find('all');

I get the following error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function find() on a non-object

When I change the Phone part of the PHP code to Content it works fine. So I’m guessing that I can’t, at the moment, access the Phone model from inside the Content controller.

Is there a way to achieve a way of accessing a model externally from a controller?

Answer 1

$this->loadModel('Phone'); # Important: singular!!!
$this->set('phones', $this->Phone->find('all'));