Check if record exists in CakePHP3.5

Question

The Following Code returns only a error :Record not found in table \"users\"

if($this->Users->get($uid)->isEmpty()) {
            //do something
            


        

Answer 1

Table::get() will immediately evaluate the query and return an entity, or throw an exception if the record with the given primary key doesn't exist, ie it doesn't return a query, you cannot call isEmpty() on the result.

If you are using Table::get() you can catch the RecordNotFoundException:

try {
    $user = $this->Users->get($uid);
    // ...
} catch (\Cake\Datasource\Exception\RecordNotFoundException $exeption) {
    // record doesn't exist
}

If you wanted to use isEmpty(), you'd need to use a regular query:

$query = $this->Users->findById($uid);
if ($query->isEmpty()) {
    // record doesn't exist
}

If you don't actually need the result, you can use Table::exists():

$exists = $this->Users->exists(['id' => $uid]);
if ($exists !== true) {
    // record doesn't exist
}

or a COUNT query:

$count = $this->Users->findById($uid)->count();
if ($count !== 1) {
    // record doesn't exist
}

See also

• Cookbook > Database Access & ORM > Retrieving Data & Results Sets > Getting a Single Entity by Primary Key
• Cookbook > Database Access & ORM > Retrieving Data & Results Sets > Checking if a Query or ResultSet is Empty
• API > \Cake\Datasource\RepositoryInterface::exists()
• Cookbook > Database Access & ORM > Query Builder > Returning the Total Count of Records