I have a web application that has been working fine until recently when I
switched operating systems. I migrated from Ubuntu to Arch Linux, backing
up my application online. In the process I lost some directories and my web
application no longer worked.
To solve this, I downloaded CakePHP again, copied the Controllers, Models
and Views from my old project into my new copy of Cake, and modified my
config to reflect my database.
I'm using Cake's AuthComponent and I'm getting this strange error message:
> Fatal error: Class 'String' not found in /srv/http/bfm/app/Model/User.php on
> line 39
I didn't know what to make of the line number because line 39 is the last
line in the file. I'm not particularly experienced with PHP outside of Cake
so perhaps somebody else will be able to tell me what that might mean.
Each User has many Podcasts, and each Podcast belongs to a User. It was in
accessing any page which used find to retrieve Podcasts and associated User
objects that the error occurred.
Stranger still, actions managed by the UsersController worked fine. I was
able to access my user login page with no problems, and I was redirected to
login when I tried to create a new user, which is consistent with my Auth
settings.
In any case, I decided to track down the cause of this error. I commented
out my validation code and my beforeSave method, which used
AuthComponent::password to hash and salt my users' passwords. Once I did
this, the error vanished. With some further clumsy debugging through
commenting, I figured out that it was specifically the beforeSave method
that was causing problems.
I tried following the trail of functions called from beforeSave, through
AuthComponent and Security. Both of those files had App::uses('String',
'Utility') in them. What's more, I tried adding that line to User.php, and
it didn't help solve the problem either.
My beforeSave method looks like this:
public beforeSave() {
if (isset($this->data[$this->alias]['password']) {
$password = $this->data[$this->alias]['password'];
$this->data[$this->alias]['password'] = AuthComponent::password($password);
}
return true;
}
When I replaced AuthComponent::password($password) with $password, the
error was still there, which confused me, because I was sure String was
needed for AuthComponent::password (via Security), and that was what was
causing the trouble.
Maybe this was too long, but I wanted to give all the information I had,
because I am well and truly stuck. I have no idea what's happening inside
my code.
I can provide more information or code if it's useful. I just don't know
where to begin.
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