Changing Model’s useTable from Controller
Posted on | August 8, 2010 | 3 Comments
I was struck trying to get the controller to change the table of a model for a while. It turns out that
$this->Payment->useTable = “payment_archives”;
doesn’t work..
Instead I have to use:
$this->Payment->setSource(“payment_archives”);
It seems that useTable is not referenced to when deciding which table to use.
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August 9th, 2010 @ 4:58 pm
That is not the way you should be doing things imo. if you want to use a different table $uses is the way to go.
If you want to use a different model for one method in your controller, loadModel() is what you want.
Having the code randomly switching db’s will not be fun when you need to debug in a few weeks/months time.
August 9th, 2010 @ 9:39 pm
I am referring to change the table used by the model in the controller, not loading a different model. Sure you can use the var $uses to setup the table in the codes. But to swap the table used by model temporary, use setSource
November 3rd, 2010 @ 4:58 am
Thanks, this is just what I needed. I was trying to figure out how to do this.