Re: Cake

On Aug 13, 2010, at 10:49 AM, Philip Thompson wrote: > Hi all. > > Having an issue with some CakePHP 1.3 stuff. I've read and read and read and haven't > found my solution. I'm fairly new to Cake, so be nice. I'm trying to access a method from > a different controller than the one I'm in and it's not letting me. > > -location.php (model) - create the relationship > public $belongsTo = 'Address'; > > -locations_controller.php - grab all the locations (+ addresses for each location) and format > the addresses > $locations = $this->Location->find('all'); > ... > $this->Location->Address->format(...); // This line throws the error > ... > > -addresses_controller.php > public function format (...) { ... } > > From my understanding, everything is defined correctly, but it thinks that I'm calling a > query when it errors: > > 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 'format' at line > 1 [CORE/cake/libs/model/datasources/dbo_source.php, line 681] > > It thinks that the method "format()" is a query. Why?! I just want it to call that > method. Please help! > > Thanks in advance, > ~Philip I'm sure this is a rookie mistake, but I figured it out. I was putting the format() method in the addresses_controller file when I should have been putting it into the address model file. Upon putting it there, it worked as expected! Thanks! ~Philip