Question

I am trying to set up a custom entity, following along alan storms article about it, but with this simple install script, it tells me that Can't create table: extended_categories_text. When i look in the database, i can actually see the following tables:

extended_categories
extended_categories_datetime
extended_categories_decimal
extended_categories_int

My install script is deadsimple and looks like this:

<?php
$installer = $this;

$installer->addEntityType('csvengine_extendedcategories',Array(
    'entity_model'          =>'csvengine/extendedcategories',
    'attribute_model'       =>'',
    'table'                 =>'csvengine/extendedcategories',
    'increment_model'       =>'eav/entity_increment_numeric',
    'increment_per_store'   =>'0'
));

$installer->createEntityTables(
    $this->getTable('csvengine/extendedcategories')
);

How can i get my install script working? Is this a known magento bug?

Answer 1

After my previous post, I got a little farther in the same tutorial, but I still ran into issues. Finally, I was lead to these two posts which allowed me to complete the tutorial:

http://www.magentocommerce.com/bug-tracking/issue/?issue=12336
http://www.magentocommerce.com/bug-tracking/issue/?issue=12126

The last one points out an error in the version of Magento I was using.

Mage_Eav_Model_Entity_Setup , Line 1341:

->addForeignKey($this->getFkName($eavTableName, ‘entity_id’, ‘eav/entity’, ‘entity_id’),
‘entity_id’, $this->getTable(‘eav/entity’), ‘entity_id’,
Varien_Db_Ddl_Table::ACTION_CASCADE, Varien_Db_Ddl_Table::ACTION_CASCADE)

Should be:

->addForeignKey($this->getFkName($eavTableName, ‘entity_id’, ‘eav/entity’, ‘entity_id’),
‘entity_id’, $baseTableName, ‘entity_id’,
Varien_Db_Ddl_Table::ACTION_CASCADE, Varien_Db_Ddl_Table::ACTION_CASCADE)