cakephp 3.0 using tableprefix?

Question

Moving on from a cakephp 2 application, I am stuck on trying to use $tablePrefix in my models. Is this still available in Cake 3? Or how can I use something else (please explain).

Answer 1

Table prefixes are gone for now. There is an open PR, however it's not clear at this point when, and if at all this is going to make it:

https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/pull/4505

As mentioned by Lorenzo in the comments, an alternative might be using events to initialize models with a prefixed table name:

For people still wanting support for prefixes in their tables, there is a way to support it using events. This will probably work for all table operations. Add it to your bootstrap.php file:

EventManager::instance()->on('Model.initialize', function ($event, $instance) {
    $instance->table('prefix_' . $instance->table());
});

https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/pull/4505#issuecomment-76154855