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Call to a member function on a non-object

What is wrong with this line of code?

$this->Post->saveField('slug', $this->Text->truncate(Inflector::slug($post['Post']['title']),25,array('exact'=>false,'html'=>false,'ending'=>'')));

As it gives me the error: Fatal error: Call to a member function truncate() on a non-object in /nfs/c03/h01/mnt/12345/domains/jazz.com/html/app/Controller/PostsController.php on line 161

Should I be using something else? Like $this->request->data['title'];

Answer 1

The error means that $this->Text is not an object, and you can’t call the truncate (or any other) method on it.

Is Text supposed to be a model? If you want to use several models in a controller you can add it to the uses array:

var $uses =  array('Post','Text');

If it’s a component, you should add it to the components array.

You can use the String class if you are looking for the truncate method that TextHelper provides. See the example given for String::truncate here: http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-utility-libraries/string.html