Re: Methods not being inherited by AppController

You're title is misleading. You say methods aren't being inherited
by AppController, which implies you've defined methods higher up in
the chain from AppController, and you're unable to call them from
AppController. I assume you meant, Methods not being inherited FROM
AppController.

If you really mean by AppController then you're doing something wrong
(or must have a good reason) because AppController should be the *top*
of your app. you shouldn't be defining functions above AppController,
because then you're in the cake libs.

Assuming you meant you've defined a function sendMessage from withing
AppController, and you're attempting to call that function from within
another function you would do it like so:

class SomeController extends AppController {
function some_function(){
$this->sendMessage($from, $to, $subject, $msbBody);
}
}

Make sure you're using the $this reference and not just attempting to
call sendMessage() without "$this->" like you would/could in Java/Ruby/
etc,,. you have to always be explicit with PHP classes.

Note: I'm assuming you're familiar with Java because you called them
"methods" instead of "functions"..... Java was my first "real"
language as well, so I almost always call functions "methods".

Hope that helps,
Nick

How are you calling sendMessage in your other controller?

On Apr 1, 11:14 am, JNotti <jo...@blueclover.com> wrote:
> As the title implies, any methods I define within app_controller are
> showing an error as undefined when calling that method from anyone of
> my controllers.  I did some searching and see that this should not be
> an issue, any thoughts?
>
> I am using version 1.2 and my AppController is located at /app/
> app_controller.php.
>
> I am calling the below method from another controller:
>
> function sendMessage($from, $to, $subject, $msgBody)
> {
>
> $this->Email->sendAs = 'text';
> $this->Email->from    = $from;
> $this->Email->to      = $to;
> $this->Email->subject = $subject;
> $this->Email->send($msgBody);
>
> echo "success";
>
> }//end sendMessage
>
> gives me:
>
> Fatal error: Call to undefined function sendMessage()

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