cakephp - naming tables and using cake bake

Question

I\'m having some weird behaviour from the cake console and I can\'t figure out what could possibly be wrong!

I\'ve used the cake bake console before and not had any prob

Answer 1

Model names should be unique...

As a general rule, don't use names for your tables that would result in a model class name that equals an existing class name, Folder for example is a utility class shipping with CakePHP, and this will cause problems with autoloading as you've experienced.

This is a problem that should/will be fixed with CakePHP 3, where namespaces are being used.

...and singular

archives being turned into archife sounds like it could be an Inflector bug/conflict, try

debug(Inflector::singularize('archives'));

It's working fine for me using CakePHP 2.5.1, ie it returns archive as expected, so I'd suggest to upgrade your CakePHP version, and report it as a bug in case it's happening with a recent version.