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copied!<p><a href="http://book.cakephp.org/view/1479/Class-methods" rel="nofollow">CakePHP's <code>Inflector</code></a></p> <pre><code>function get_table_name() { $tbl_name = Inflector::pluralize($this->name); } </code></pre> <p>OR the <a href="http://api13.cakephp.org/class/inflector#method-Inflectortableize" rel="nofollow"><code>tableize</code></a> method</p> <pre><code>function get_table_name() { $tbl_name = Inflector::tableize($this->name); } </code></pre> <p><strong>Edit</strong></p> <p>This also addresses the apparent "ghost" issue with <code>$this->table</code> in the Model.</p> <p><a href="http://api13.cakephp.org/view_source/model/#line-403" rel="nofollow">Digging around in the <code>__construct</code> for <code>Model</code></a> I discovered two things:</p> <ol> <li><p>Cake uses <code>Inflector::tableize()</code> to get the table name. <strong>This alone</strong> is enough to warrant using <code>tableize</code> over <code>pluralize</code>. You'll get consistent results.</p></li> <li><p><code>$this->table</code> is not set by the <code>Model::__construct()</code> unless <code>$this->useTable === false</code> AND <code>$this->table === false</code>.</p></li> </ol> <p>It appears that if you know you haven't set <code>$this->useTable</code> to <code>false</code> you should be able to use this over <code>$this->table</code>. Admittedly though I only briefly scanned the source and I haven't really dug deep enough to say why <code>$this->table</code> isn't working sometimes.</p>

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