Question

I’m working in a CakePHP Model class, writing a function that is supposed to perform a whole bunch of manipulations on the model. I’m trying to follow the skinny controller, fat model idea. However, I don’t seem to be able to call any of the model’s functions from with in my model. Something hasn’t been initialized yet, because I get an SQL error when I do:

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 '' at line 1 [CORE/cake/libs/model/datasources/dbo_source.php, line 681]

Query: SHOW FULL COLUMNS FROM 

It looks as if the table name hasn’t been set internally somewhere. My model looks like this:

class Search extends AppModel {
    var $name='Search';
    var $hasMany = 'SearchResult';
    var $actsAs = array('Containable');


    function search($query) {
            $this->create();
            $this->set('query', $query);
            $this->save();
        }
}

I know everything the Model needs has already been created works find, because calling that exact same sequence of functions works fine from the Model controller. Like so:

function search($query) {
            $this->Search->create();
            $this->Search->set('query', $query);
            $this->Search->save();
}

That works fine. So what gives? What’s going on here?

Answer 1

The solution turned out to be a naming collision with my function search and something deeper in CakePHP’s call stack. Changing the name of the function from search to something else (mySearch, for instance) fixed it.