How to get the field names of the table in CakePHP

Question

I am a complete newbie in CakePHP. I want to read the field names of the table in the controller.

I want the controller to list all the field names in the table. How do I do that?

Answer 1

Use the following snippet to get an array of the field names (replace "YourModel" with the name of your model):

array_keys($this->YourModel->getColumnTypes());

Answer 2

as simple as $this->Model->schema()

Answer 3

For CakePHP 3.x

$this->Model->schema() - Returns the Schema object.

$this->Model->schema()->columns() - Returns all of the columns in the table in an array.