Question

I’m still trying to migrate from CakePHP 1.3 to 2.0

I have a Controller UsersController and its Model User.
The class User has some constants which I could easily access from the UsersController using User::constant. But for CakePHP 2.0 it doesn’t work: I get an error saying the User class is not found. It works if I App::Import('Model', 'User');.

Answer 1

It sure has to do with their built-in lazy loading in 2.0!
you simple need to tell this file that it has other dependencies

do that at the very top of your UserController file:

<?php
App::uses('User', 'Model');

then everything works fine