Question

I have a fresh baked (with bake console) project in which I have 2 models behaving differently when I call model->find function.

UsersController

public function index() {
    $this->User->recursive = 0;
    $this->set('users', $this->paginate());
}

WordsController

public function index() {
    $this->Word->recursive = 0;
    $this->set('words', $this->paginate());
}

Query (DebugKit)

SELECT `Word`.`*` FROM `words` AS `Word` WHERE `Word`.`iniziale` = 'A' AND `Word`.`pubblicata` = '1' ORDER BY `Word`.`parola` ASC LIMIT 10
Affected 10 
Num rows 10

In both cases the query inspected has affected rows, but the WordsController doesn’t return any results if I debug the paginate() result, while the Users one gives correctly.

Word model has no relations, and I tried to change the model name to Term, obtaining the same result.

I tried also to downgrade CakePHP core to 2.1.4. Nothing.

Are there any possible causes to this problem? Is Word some kind of reserved keyword? How can this be debugged?

Answer 1

I figured it out.

I had in the words table (UTF8), some texts containing special characters like àòèéìù. Cake removed all the result containing these characters. I tried replacing “è” with “e” and magically the record was available in Cake!

Hope my 5 hours of headache will help someone else!