Question

I intended to create a controller that handles a contact page. I created the controller ContactsController. The problem is that it is asking for a table with the same name:

Missing Database Table

Error: Database table
username_contacts for model Contact
was not found.

Notice: If you want to customize this
error message, create
app/views/errors/missing_table.ctp

Do I really need to create a table with no data for this?

This is my controller code:

<?php
class ContactsController extends AppController {

    var $name = 'Contacts';


    function index($id = null)
    {
        $this->set('page', ClassRegistry::init('Page')->findByShortname($id));
    }
}

Answer 1

var $name = 'Contacts';
var $uses = array();

not to be that guy, but this is documented well.
http://book.cakephp.org