CakePHP specify table-name

Question

I have a table called entries with an associated model called Entry. I stepped through the Blog-tutorial on the CakePHP website. It states that the

Answer 1

The answer to your question is to specify it inside your model.

$useTable = 'yourtablename'

Although, as Wooble noted, your doubts are wrong.

Answer 2

Cakephp 3, use this instead:

https://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/orm/table-objects.html

class MyTable extends Table
{
    public function initialize(array $config)
    {
        parent::initialize($config);
        $this->setTable('my_table');
        $this->setAlias('MyTable');
    }
}