Question

I’m sure this issue can be solved rapidly, but I don’t find any answer on the web, so here I am. I want to call a function from another controller, but CakePHP does not recognize it as a function but as a query, returning a warning:

Warning (512): SQL Error: 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'goals' at line 1 [CORE/cake/libs/model/datasources/dbo_source.php, line 673]

Here’s the logic of what I am trying to do:

//from the TeamController
$this->Team->Player->goals()

//in the PlayerController
function goals() {
    //code
}

As you can guess by the names, a Team hasMany Players and a Player belongsTo a Team. I thought this was the way to deal with it, but it’s obviously not working because the cake wants to launch an SQL query starting by “goals”.

Cheers,
Nicolas.

Answer 1

None of the solutions here worked and it looked like the function had to be slightly different from the one on the other controller, so I decided to rewrite a new one in the controller.