Question

I am trying to understand some fundamental aspects of CakePHP, I successfully completed the blog tutorial (I am doing the 1.3 version because the project I need to work on is a legacy CakePHP1.3 app), and just to test my skills I setup a new, bare bones model, view and controller under the same project with the structure and code below.

What I don’t understand is when I run this via localhost/foo/info/, while the address loads, the page reports it is looking for a database table called ‘foos’. If I add the table called ‘foos’, the page loads fine. But what I don’t understand is what would I have to do so I can run this same code independently of the database? In other words, so it runs without any database table called foos. I don’t understand where in the code below there is a request for a ‘foos’ table.

/app/models/foo.php

<?php
class Foo extends AppModel
{

}
?>

/app/views/foo/info.ctp

<!-- File: /app/views/foo/info.ctp -->

<h1>Info page</h1>

<p>This is an info page</p>

/app/controllers/foo_controller.php

<?php
class FooController extends AppController {
    var $name = 'Foo';

    function info() {
    }
}
?>

Answer 1

In model: public $useTable = false;

OR

In controller: public $uses = array();

Further reading:

http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/models/model-attributes.html

http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/controllers.html#Controller::$uses