Question

I can’t find any information of where cakeError() is defined as member-function. The documentation only states that the call looks like this:

$this->cakeError(string $errorType [, array $parameters]);

But calling this in my AppController subclass gives me Call to undefined method EntriesController::cakeError().

Where is cakeError() defined?

Answer 1

CakePHP 2.x:

http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/development/errors.html

For 2.0 Object::cakeError() has been removed. Instead it has been
replaced with a number of exceptions. All of the core classes that
previously called cakeError are now throwing exceptions. This lets you
either choose to handle the errors in your application code, or let
the built in exception handling deal with them.

CakePHP 1.3:

http://api13.cakephp.org/view_source/object/#line-187

http://api13.cakephp.org/class/object#method-ObjectcakeError