I suppose the burning question is, why do you want both versions of
the app using the same DB? That seems fraught with peril.

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:03 AM, jakobjp <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I am trying to map model attributes to database fields with different
> names.
>
> Example of regular CakePHP model:
> User Model with attributes "id" and "firstname" would load the
> appropriate values from same-named database fields "id" and
> "firstname".
>
> Example of my CakePHP mode:
> User Model with aatributes "id" and "first_name" should load the
> appropriate values from the fields "uid" and "firstname".
>
> I know this is not perfect, but absolutely necessary because the new
> and old application will use the existing database at the same time.
> However, we do not want to continue using the old attribute names like
> "uid" and "firstname".
>
> I've tried playing around with the $_schema variable, but with no
> luck :-(
>
>
> Summary of this question: How to load a model attribute called X from
> a database table field called Y?
>
>
> Your help is much appreciated.
> >
>

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