Sorry for the confusing thread. I think I figured out what the
communication gap is. I said "key" meaning PHP associative array key as
in "key" => "value", I didn't mean primary DB key. All my primary keys
in the DB are called "id" and I've never had trouble with Cake
accessing that.
I resolved m
I'm saying you don't have to change your primary key's, you just need
to tell Cake what they are; I understand your constraints in trying to
integrate with an existing site. Cake tries to be as
real-world-friendly as possible.
If you post your db schema for the relevant tables, it'd be easier to
I am adding Cake to an existing site, so I wasn't easily able to
accomodate the naming conventions. I did go through and change all the
primary keys to "id", however, so that isn't what's keeping my models
from seeing each other.
I'm still not fully understanding why, but I'm just going to stick
As I said, you can call the association whatever you want, as long as
you set the approriate array keys. If your table uses a primary key
other than 'id', you can set it in your model as follows:
var $primaryKey = 'WhateverID';
I'm going to assume this is your problem, since it looks like you u
In my case I had a model class "MusicDetails" which in turn had an
association with Composers. When I had
class Music extends Item {
var $name = 'Music';
var $belongsTo = array(
'Details' => // not 'MusicDetails'
array('className' =>
You can call both the association name and the class name whatever you
want. In fact, if the association name and class name are the same,
the 'className' key is not required.
The association name defines the name of the key that is returned in
query results, so you can use whatever you want for
You can call both the association name and the class name whatever you
want. In fact, if the association name and class name are the same,
the 'className' key is not required.
The association name defines the name of the key that is returned in
query results, so you can use whatever you want for
In an association, today for me it was $belongsTo, I learned that the
associative array you make is required to re-use the class name for
both the className field and the key of the assoc. array, like this:
class Music extends Item {
var $name = 'Music';
var $belongsTo = array(
