Question

I have a few different contact forms in my CakePHP 2.0 application. All of the contact forms are emailing as they should, but I need this particular one to also save the form results to the database. The post data is populating, and I can print_r() and pr() the form data. I can even email the post data. However, it is not actually saving the data to the model table. The database table is named contacts and has the following fields: id, publication, company, name, email, phone, message, contact_method, selections, received.

Here is my model:

class Contact extends AppModel {
    public $name = 'Contact';

    public $useTable = 'contacts';

    public $validate = array(  
    'name' => array(
            'rule' => 'notEmpty'
        ),
        'email' => array(
            'rule' => 'notEmpty'
        )
    );

Here is my controller:

App::uses('CakeEmail', 'Network/Email');

class ContactsController extends AppController
{
    public $name = 'Contacts';
    public $helpers = array('Html', 'Form', 'Js');
    public $components = array('Email', 'Session');

...

    public function contact_att() {

        if ($this->request->is('post')) {

            //pr($this->data);
            if ($this->Contact->save($this->request->data)) {
                $this->redirect('/pages/publications-alabama-turf-times');
                $this->Session->setFlash("Mesage Saved!"); 
            }

            else {
                print_r($this->data);
                Configure::write('debug', 2); 
                debug($this->Contact->validationErrors); 

                exit;
            }
        }

Here is the form in my view:

echo $this->Form->create('Contact', array(
    'action' => 'contact_att', 
    'label' => '', 
    'class' => 'pubs'));
echo $this->Form->input('publication', array(
    'type' => 'hidden', 
    'value' => 'A', 
    'label' => ''));
echo $this->Form->input('company', array(
    'default' => 'company name (required)', 
    'onfocus' => 'clearDefault(this)', 
        'label' => array(
            'text' => 'Company Name',
            'style' => 'position:absolute;')));
echo $this->Form->input('name', array(
    'default' => 'name (required)', 
    'onfocus' => 'clearDefault(this)', 
    'label' => array(
        'text' => 'Your Name',
        'style' => 'position:absolute;')));
echo $this->Form->input('phone', array(
    'default' => 'phone number (required)', 
    'onfocus' => 'clearDefault(this)', 
    'label' => array(
        'text' => 'Your Phone Number',
        'style' => 'position:absolute;')));
echo $this->Form->input('email', array(
    'default' => 'email (required)', 
    'onfocus' => 'clearDefault(this)', 
    'label' => array(
        'text' => 'Your Email Address',
        'style' => 'position:absolute;')));
echo $this->Form->input('message', array(
    'label' => array(
        'text' => 'Your Message',
        'style' => 'position:absolute;')));
echo $this->Form->input('contact_method', array(
    'type' => 'radio',
    'style' => 'padding-right:20px;', 
    'legend' => 'Preferred contact method:', 
    'options' => array(
        'phone' => 'phone',
        'email' => 'email'
        )
    ));
echo $this->Form->input('selections', array(
    'type' => 'select', 
    'label' => array(
    'text' => 'I am interested in the following:', 
    'style' => 'display:block; width:250px; margin-left:-12px;padding-bottom:15px;'),
        'multiple' => 'checkbox',
        'options' => array(
            'ABC' => 'ABC', 
            'DEF' => 'DEF', 
            'GHI' => 'GHI'
         )
    ));

echo $this->Form->end('Submit');

What am I missing?

Answer 1

After much banging my head on the desk, the answer turned out to be simple — of course. I simply removed this line from my model. I thought that having it set to the correct table would be fine, but turns out, it needed to be removed:

public $useTable = 'contacts';