following book Agile Web Application Development fixtures issue

[apolinux]

I have followed the book Agile Web Application Development with Yii 1.1 and PHP5, and made the examples in a similar way like was described in the book, but applying to my own design.

All went ok until chapter 5 page 91. I got the error well known running the script CommerceTest, similar to ProjectTest but applied to my site:

There was 1 error:

1. CommerceTest::testRead

Exception: Unknown method ‘commerces’ for class ‘CommerceTest’.

/xdir/yii/framework/test/CDbTestCase.php:78

/xdir/protected/tests/unit/CommerceTest.php:44

/xdir/protected/tests/unit/CommerceTest.php:44

In CommerceTest appears:

<?php

class CommerceTest extends CDbTestCase

{

public $fixtures=array


(


	'commerces'=>'Commerce',


);





...





public function testRead()


{


	$retrievedProject = $this->commerces('commerce1');     // <--- line 44


	$this->assertTrue($retrievedProject instanceof Commerce);


	$this->assertEquals('Test commerce 1',$retrievedProject->name);


}

I have searched all the web looking for the answer, and I tried everything, but nothing worked. The last try I did was to run the script with debug in netbeans, and I could get the answer, at least for me it worked.

In the fixtures dir, I just changed the name from “commerce.php” to “dbname.commerce.php” , and that’s it, the test ran ok.

The only question is why worked or why is not well documented in the book.

thanks for your answers.

[yugenekr]

If you’d var_dump($this->commerces), you’d see it’s an array (you return array() in relevant file).

Thus, you need to use square brackets to reach it’s values, e.g.

$this->commerces['commerce1']

Otherwise it looks like you’re trying to call a method commerces().