Unknown method called on Cake\ORM\Table - CakePHP 4

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Hi,

I’ve been developing with CakePHP 2 for years and recently jumped to 4, and it’s a big change. But, got my app working nicely locally and deployed it to a testing server. Locally I’m on a Mac running XAMPP without any issues. The deployment server is Fedora 31 running PHP 7.3. Everything seems set up correctly, I’ve tested the database connection too.

But, when I load my site, I get the following error:

Unknown method “parameters” called on Cake\ORM\Table

But it works fine locally. I’ve checked everything. Re-run composer on the deployment server. Checked requirements.The files are synced with Git. But, I cannot figure out why I’m getting this error.

The file referenced in the error looks like this:

AppController.php

namespace App\Controller;
use Cake\Controller\Controller;
use Cake\ORM\TableRegistry;
use Cake\Core\Configure;
use App\Application;

class AppController extends Controller {
    public function initialize(): void {
        parent::initialize();

		$this->App = new Application(dirname(dirname(__DIR__)) . '/config');
		$this->requester = $this->App->requester();
...
        $this->loadComponent('RequestHandler');
        $this->loadComponent('Flash');

	$this->Babel 			= TableRegistry::getTableLocator()->get('babel');
	$this->Brands 			= TableRegistry::getTableLocator()->get('brands');
	$this->Collections 		= TableRegistry::getTableLocator()->get('collections');
...
	$this->Odin = TableRegistry::getTableLocator()->get('odin');
	

		$requestparams = $this->request->getAttribute('params');

		$this->params = $this->Odin->parameters($requestparams);
...

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I’d really appreciate it if someone could help me figure out why I get this error on one server but not the other. Am I missing something in the set up that isn’t synced over Git? Is there a file I need to manually add to the server? I feel if this was the case it would just crash.

Anyway, all help gratefully received.

Thanks,

Michael

1 Like
2

FYI, the parameters() method is part of a Parameters Behavior which is loaded in the OdinTable.

3

Check the type of $this->Odin. I’m betting it’s a generic Cake table object, not your specific class. That’ll most likely be because of case differences in the file system, if your dev system is Windows and live is Linux.

4

Genius! Didn’t even consider case differences.

From local Mac:

object(App\Model\Table\OdinTable) {

	'registryAlias' => 'odin',
	'table' => 'odin',
	'alias' => 'odin',
	'entityClass' => 'App\Model\Entity\Odin',
	'associations' => [],
	'behaviors' => [
		(int) 0 => 'Parameters',
		(int) 1 => 'Arraysearch',
		(int) 2 => 'File'
	],
	'defaultConnection' => 'default',
	'connectionName' => 'default'

}

From Fedora server:

object(Cake\ORM\Table) {

	'registryAlias' => 'odin',
	'table' => 'odin',
	'alias' => 'odin',
	'entityClass' => 'Cake\ORM\Entity',
	'associations' => [],
	'behaviors' => [],
	'defaultConnection' => 'default',
	'connectionName' => 'default'

}

After sorting out the cases on all the classes I pinpointed the error:

->getTableLocator()->get(‘odin’);

should be

->getTableLocator()->get(‘Odin’);

Odd thig is when I first used the table locator I copied and pasted the method from the CakePHP Cookbook!

Thanks so much for your help, I really appreciate it.

Kind regards,

Michael