Question

I started develop in localhost, using yii 1.1.11 using the auto generate app, create users table, using gii to generate crud. When I migrate to webhosting, I have to use prefix for the table thus become “yii_users” and edit the config with this:

'db'=>array(
  'connectionString' => 'xxxxx',
  'username' => 'xxxxx',
  'password' => 'xxxxx',
  'tablePrefix' => 'yii_',
),

But I can no longer login and get error ‘The table “users” for active record class “Users” cannot be found in the database. ‘ So I assume the tablePrefix doesn’t work. How to fix this?

Answer 1

This requires you to change all your activerecords also, check the guide:

Info: To use the table prefix feature, the tableName() method for an AR class may be overridden …
……
That is, instead of returning the fully qualified table name, we return the table name without the prefix and enclose it in double curly brackets

So you will need to do this:

public function tableName() {
    return '{{user}}';
}

Also from tablePrefix doc:

By setting this property, any token like ‘{{tableName}}‘ … will be replaced by ‘prefixTableName’, where ‘prefix’ refers to this property value.

(emphasis mine)