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Models for the plugin are stored in /app/plugins/pizza/models. We've already defined a PizzaOrdersController for this plugin, so let's create the model for that controller, called PizzaOrder. PizzaOrder is consistent with our previously defined naming scheme of pre-pending all of our plugin classes with Pizza.

// /app/plugins/pizza/models/pizza_order.php:
class PizzaOrder extends PizzaAppModel {
	var $name = 'PizzaOrder';
}
?>

1. // /app/plugins/pizza/models/pizza_order.php:
2. class PizzaOrder extends PizzaAppModel {
3. var $name = 'PizzaOrder';
4. }
5. ?>

Visiting /pizza/pizzaOrders now (given you’ve got a table in your database called ‘pizza_orders’) should give us a “Missing View” error. Let’s create that next.

If you need to reference a model within your plugin, you need to include the plugin name with the model name, separated with a dot.

For example:

// /app/plugins/pizza/models/example_model.php:
class ExampleModel extends PizzaAppModel {
	var $name = 'ExampleModel';
        var $hasMany = array('Pizza.PizzaOrder');
}
?>

1. // /app/plugins/pizza/models/example_model.php:
2. class ExampleModel extends PizzaAppModel {
3. var $name = 'ExampleModel';
4. var $hasMany = array('Pizza.PizzaOrder');
5. }
6. ?>

If you would prefer that the array keys for the association not have the plugin prefix on them, use the alternative syntax:

// /app/plugins/pizza/models/example_model.php:
class ExampleModel extends PizzaAppModel {
	var $name = 'ExampleModel';
        var $hasMany = array(
                'PizzaOrder' => array(
                        'className' => 'Pizza.PizzaOrder'
                )
        );
}
?>

1. // /app/plugins/pizza/models/example_model.php:
2. class ExampleModel extends PizzaAppModel {
3. var $name = 'ExampleModel';
4. var $hasMany = array(
5. 'PizzaOrder' => array(
6. 'className' => 'Pizza.PizzaOrder'
7. )
8. );
9. }
10. ?>