CakePHP has the wrong model name

Question

I'm trying out CakePHP now and I can't get my app working because CakePHP "thinks" my model name is 'Tach' when it's in fact 'Tache'.

Why so ?

My controller is defined as : app/controllers/taches_controller.php

class TachesController extends AppController {

function index() {

    $allTaches = $this->Tache->find('all');

    $this->set('taches', $allTaches);

}

}

And here's my model : app/models/tache.php

class Tache extends AppModel {

var $useTable = 'taches';

}

I get an error if I use 'Tache' in my controller :

        $allTaches = $this->Tache->find('all');

But if I use 'Tach', I get no error :

        $allTaches = $this->Tach->find('all');

Why can't I use the model name 'Tache' ? Am I doing something wrong ? By the way I'm on php 5.3 and my CakePHP version is 1.3.8

Thanks !

Alex

It looks like your Taches fell victim of some kind of automatic depluralization. Though I don't know CakePHP.. — Imi Borbas

Robert Groves Robert Groves · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-27T23:03:19

CakePHP's default inflection rules think that Taches is the plural form of Tach.

You'll need to use the Inflector class to add a custom inflection.

See the following:

Section 3.4.6 Inflections of the cookbook. Which explains about custom inflections.
Inflector Class Info from the API doc.

To recap you'll need to add something like the following to your app/config/bootstrap.php file:

Inflector::rules('plural', array('irregular' => array('tache' => 'taches')));

CakePHP has the wrong model name

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