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I'm new to cakephp3. I would like to know if it is possible to add a new entry form controller1 to table2.

It is a login form. So I would like to authenticate first whether the user is registered, then after authenticating, I would like to save the details to another table.

class UsersController extends AppController
{

 public function login()
 
 $user = $this->Users->newEntity();
 if($this->request->is(['post']))
 
 $user = $this->Auth->identify();
 if($user)
 
 $logs = TableRegistry::get('AttendsTable');
 $log->username = 'lorem ipsum';
 $log->datenow = '2018-11-10';
 $log->tin = '12:42:00';
 $log->tout ='12:42:00';
 $logs->save($log);
 $this->Auth->setUser($user);
 $this->redirect(['action'=>'index']);
 
 
 

I am getting an error:

"Argument 1 passed to CakeORMTable::save() must implement interface CakeDatasourceEntityInterface, instance of stdClass given, called in C:xampphtdocsTimeStampssrcControllerUsersController.php on line 32"

Your code isn't working because the Model->save() function expects an entity. In your snippet $log is not defined first, so PHP just makes it a stdClass (gotta love high-level programming :p).

Something like this should work:

$logs = TableRegistry::get('AttendsTable');
$log = $logs->newEntity([
 'username' => 'lorem ipsum',
 'datenow' => '2018-11-10',
 // ...
]);

$logs->save($log);

Moreover, I've heard say it's better to use $this->loadModel() instead of TableRegistry::get():

$this->loadModel('ExternalModel');

// Now available:
$this->ExternalModel->//...

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