Question

The first block of code throw the error Fatal error: Class 'DboSource' not found whereas the second block of code works just fine. This beats me, both use the same line to save the created field…
Block 1

public function add() {
    if ($this->request->is('post')) {
        $this->request->data['created'] = DboSource::expression('NOW()');
        $this->EbayAccount->create();
        if ($this->EbayAccount->save($this->request->data)) {
            //$this->EbayAccount->id = $this->EbayAccount->getLastInsertID();
            //$this->EbayAccount->saveField('created', DboSource::expression('NOW()'));
            $this->Session->setFlash(__('The ebay account has been saved'));
            $this->redirect(array('action' => 'index'));
        } else {
            $this->Session->setFlash(__('The ebay account could not be saved. Please, try again.'));
        }
    }
    $this->set('userId', $this->Auth->user('id'));      
}

Block 2

public function add() {
    if ($this->request->is('post')) {
        //$this->request->data['created'] = DboSource::expression('NOW()');
        $this->EbayAccount->create();
        if ($this->EbayAccount->save($this->request->data)) {
            $this->EbayAccount->id = $this->EbayAccount->getLastInsertID();
            $this->EbayAccount->saveField('created', DboSource::expression('NOW()'));
            $this->Session->setFlash(__('The ebay account has been saved'));
            $this->redirect(array('action' => 'index'));
        } else {
            $this->Session->setFlash(__('The ebay account could not be saved. Please, try again.'));
        }
    }
    $this->set('userId', $this->Auth->user('id'));      
}

Answer 1

the syntax for expression is :

$db = ConnectionManager::getDataSource('default');

$this->request->data['created'] = $db->expression('SYSDATE()');

if you want to use SYSDATE() , NOW(), and other expressions

it’s working in cake 2.2.x