Question

I have a users table with a reference to tenant_id and manager_id (these are my aliases for the users model). When I try to bake the model, I get the following error:

Error: Missing database table 'tenants' for model 'Tenant'

I thought bake would allow me to tell it what my aliases are. Am I doing something wrong, or do I just have to manually create my models and forego baking?

Answer 1

The magic of Cake is, I think, being clever and saying, “According to CakePHP convention, tenant_id points to Tenant.id and manager_id points to Manager.id, but I can’t find those tables.”

I would be inclined to code the model myself – I rarely use bake except when I’m laying down a project and things aren’t too complex.

It’s not clear to me what you are trying to achieve here. Does tenant_id mirror User.id? If you are trying to do what I think you are, then you’ll need to create three Models – User, Tenant and Manager and code something like:

(models/tenant.php)

class Tenant extends AppModel {
   var $useTable = 'users'; // This model uses the 'users' database table.
}