What is the best way to access another CakePHP model in a controller?

Question

Let's say I have two controllers like Table1sControllerand Table2sController. With appropriate models: Table1sModel, Table2sModel.

In Table1sControllerI got the following:

$this->Table1sModel->action();

Let's say I want to access some data in Table2sModel.

How can one do something like this in Table1sController? I tried this in Table1sController:

$this->Table2sModel->action();

But I got an error like this:

Undefined property: Table1sController :: $ Table2sModel

Answer 1

There are several ways.

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$this->Model1->Model2->method();

, Model2, $uses model1Controller. . http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/controllers.html#components-helpers-and-uses

, ( , model2), / , http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/models/associations-linking-models-together.html

Answer 2

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$uses = array ('Table1sModel', 'Table2sModel', 'LolModel') , . . , .

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