Issue

Is there way to get current model's foreign key name in other model something like this

echo $this->Category->whatIsMyForeignKeyName();
// expected output 'category_id'

Edit: Version

strtolower($this->Category->alias).'_id'

somehow seems not in spirit of cake.

Solution

What you did with strtolower will work in almost all (or maybe all?) cases, though a slightly more thorough way would be something like:

$fkey = Inflector::singularize(Inflector::tableize($this->Category->alias)).'_id';

But the question I'd be asking is why do you want to do that? Why not just hard-code it as 'category_id'?

Answered By - joshua.paling

Answer Checked By - Mary Flores (PHPFixing Volunteer)