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ShonM

I come from a CI background, because of that I think FuelPHP is really exciting and it's nice to see progression. This is my first and seemingly only problem with Fuel, and it has been a tough one to get over. I've attempted to generate a scaffold using Oil, and every time I get this error on both my Win7 and OSX machines. The code I run to generate the scaffold seems to work;
<code>php oil g scaffold posts title:string content:text</code> Part of this is the automatic generation of a model, which looks like this:
<code><?php class Model_Posts extends Orm\Model { } /* End of file posts.php */</code> Which then generates this error: <b>ErrorException [ Error ]: Class 'Orm\Model' not found</b> Am I missing something?

linjoo

I have the similar problem. I have this following controller :
modules/user/classes/controller/user.php and the model in :
modules/user/classes/model/user.php i try to create user model object in controller users.php :
$new = new model_user(); but, it is generate this following error:
ErrorException [ Error ]: Class 'user\Model_Users' not found please help, thx ....

Jelmer Schreuder

Have you read what's written above before asking? You probably forgot to add it to the always_load config as is also described in the docs.

ShonM

Make sure it's in the same namespace. Every class in a module has to be in the same namespace. Also, I create new entries like so; $user = Model_User::factory(array(
'username' => 'ShonM',
'active' => 1
)); Instead of new Model_User. Makes it easier when you have thousands of lines of code where the Model_User has its attributes modified several times (for example).

Paul Bombo

I'm getting the same error as ShonM and I've added orm to app/config/config.php

huglester

Paul Bombo wrote on Tuesday 26th of April 2011:

I'm getting the same error as ShonM and I've added orm to app/config/config.php

can you show the code from config? If you try to access ORM from a module, you need to use \Orm\Model (you need to use namespace)

Paul Bombo

'packages' => array(
'orm',
'auth',
), thats the relevant part from my config file I'm trying to access my orm models from a controller

Harro

That should be enough to make the ORM package active. You should not use the ORM from a controller, you should create a model:

class Model_Test extends \Orm\Model
{
   // additional configurator or code here
}

and then in your controller use this model. See the docs (http://fuelphp.com/docs/packages/orm/intro.html) for more information.

Jelmer Schreuder

Also: what is the exact error message? (copy-pasted prefereably)

Harro

Is the ORM package loaded (app/config/config.php)?

ShonM

OH. Thank you. For some reason I interpreted the package being installed as "active".

Harro

No, you have to explicitly load it. For performance reasons, Fuel doesn't load anything more than needed.

fabled_1

I had this problem as well, I sympathise with linjoo completely. What you are supposed to do here is not clear at all. The documentation eludes to putting packages in your "always_load" section of your config but never explains this. http://fuelphp.com/docs/general/packages.html

Jelmer also unhelpfully refers to this magical "always_load" section but doesnt provide any example.

The page which futher confused me was: http://fuelphp.com/docs/general/configuration.html which eludes that the syntax for this is a dot (auto_load.packages).

There were a lot of examples which say put:
                'packages' => array(
                    'orm',
                ),
in the relevent point in your config.

What all this boils down to is with a slightly more elaboration I could have saved 2 hours of reading the source from top to bottom. What your config should look like to load the Orm package is:
<?php
/**
* Fuel is a fast, lightweight, community driven PHP5 framework.
*
* @package    Fuel
* @version    1.0
* @author     Fuel Development Team
* @license    MIT License
* @copyright 2010 - 2012 Fuel Development Team
* @link       http://fuelphp.com
*/

/**
* If you want to override the default configuration, add the keys you
* want to change here, and assign new values to them.
*/

return array(
        'always_load' => array(
                'packages' => array(
                    'orm',
                ),
        ),
);

Harro

This has to do with the fact that before 1.4, all config was in your app/config folder. So you would see this structure when you opened the file.

Because nobody updated their config when upgrading to a new version, we have decided to move all default configuration in the core, so you only need to override defaults in your app/config file, and you start with an empty file.

This should be clearly mentioned on the general configuration docs page.

I can imagine that this leads to confusion, I'll try to find the time to go through the docs and clarify this point.

Uriptical

This confused me as well. It would be great to see the always_load array mentioned in the documentation for auth and orm, particularly on these pages:

http://fuelphp.com/docs/packages/auth/intro.html

http://fuelphp.com/docs/packages/orm/intro.html

Harro

When you have things like this, always check the dev-docs, to see if it has already been corrected.

Which I did for ORM: http://fuelphp.com/dev-docs/packages/orm/intro.html

I will check other locations refering to config too.

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