Model: User

Models provide the interface to the database. While the tables they refer to are named plurally, the models are named singularly.

Create /app/models/user.php

<?php
class User extends AppModel {
    var $name = 'User';
}
?>

If the primary key field of your table is not "id" then you need to add the variable $primaryKey, otherwise you can leave it out.

    var $primaryKey = 'unique_id';

If you didn't design your tables around CakePHP (why wouldn't you?) then you can explicitly specify the table name for your model here as well.

    var $useTable = 'table_name';

If you don't want a model to use a table, such as for display purposes only, or when pulling data from an external source, you can set the useTable variable to false.

    var $useTable = false;

Once you do that, you can set the schema for the non-table data with the _schema variable.

    var $_schema = array(
        'last_name' => array('type' => 'strong', 'length' => 50),
        'date_of_birth' => array('type' => 'date')
    );

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