Question

I’m implementing web service in cakephp.

I found a plugin here to do this. When I do the installation steps, any trial to access controller/action.json request I get this error:

Strict (2048): Declaration of RestComponent::initialize() 
should be compatible with Component::initialize(Controller $controller)

What does it mean that it should be compatible?

Answer 1

Class methods that override methods of a parent class should implement the same signatures as the methods that are being overwritten, ie the intialize method in the RestComponent should look like this (https://github.com/cakephp/…/Component.php#L109):

public function initialize(Controller $controller)

instead of this (https://github.com/kvz/cakephp-rest-plugin/…RestComponent.php#L153):

public function initialize(&$Controller)