# Specifying the table in Cakephp 2.5 belongsTo association

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**Created:** [January 6, 2017, 7:05am UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/specifying-the-table-in-cakephp-2-5-belongsto-association/1826 "2017-01-06T07:05:39Z")\
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In CakePHP 2.5.X I am creating a belongsTo association, below.

public $belongsTo = array(  
‘Signature1’ =\> array(  
‘class’ =\> ‘Samples.Signature’,  
‘foreignKey’ =\> ‘signature\_id’,  
),  
‘Signature2’ =\> array(  
‘class’ =\> ‘Samples.Signature’,  
‘foreignKey’ =\> ‘signature2\_id’,  
),  
);

I am receiving the error that the signature1s table does not exist… As you can see this is a model from a plugin, I’ve done some searching and apparently you can not define the table that a belongsTo association will grab from?

‘table’ =\> ‘signatures’,  
Help?