1146 Table 'Accounting.users' doesn't exist Cake\Database\ - cakephp

Question

I'm working with cakephp3. I want to make login page. Name of table in Accounting database is 'users'.
This is my code:
<?php
namespace App\Controller;
use App\Controller\AppController;
class UsersController extends AppController {
public function login() {
if ($this->request->is('post')) {
$data = $this->request->data;
$cnt = $data->Users->find()
->count();
if ($cnt > 0) {
$this->redirect(['action' => 'index']);
} else {
$this->set('error', 'username or password is incorrct ');
}
}
}}
and this is Users.php
<?php
namespace App\Model\Table;
use Cake\ORM\Table;
class UsersTable extends Table {
}
after login in login page:
Error: Call to a member function find() on a non-object
In your opinion, what is the problem.

Answer 1

$data is not a Table object.
$data = $this->request->data;
$cnt = $data->Users->find()
This is pretty obvious.
I strongly recommend you to take some time and learn about debugging techniques and how to tackle this kind of problem and error messages. A developer should be able to resolve this kind of problem pretty quickly without external help. This is considered normal ever days work for a developer.
1) Read the whole error message 2) Search for it on Google and Stackoverflow, it is very unlikely nobody else ever got that message before. 3) Act according to whatever the cause of the error message is.
In the case of this error message debug what kind of object you're dealing with and figure out why it is not the object you expect it to be. Going trough the call stack helps. Use Xdebugs profiler for that, it's a great tool.
Also don't use variable names like $cnt I assume this is supposed to mean "account" which doesn't even fit into the context it is used. It's very bad named. Instead use proper variable names that are readable and fit into the context. It is a totally wrong assumption that keeping variable names short is any kind of time saver - it is clearly not. The next person working with this will need a dictionary or do a lot of guesswork on what these variables mean.

Answer 2

Instead of $cnt = $data->Users->find()->count(); use $cnt = $this->{$this->modelClass}->find('count');