Check if email exists in database using phalcon

Question

I have the following code:

<?php

use Phalcon\Mvc\Controller;
use Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Query;

class SignupController extends Controller
{
    public function indexAction()
    {

    }

    public function registerAction()
    {


        $user = new Users();

        // Store and check for errors
        $success = $user->save(
            $this->request->getPost(),
            [
                "name",
                "email",
            ]
        );

        // Instantiate the Query
        $query = new Query(
            'SELECT email FROM users',
            $this->getDI()
        );

        // Execute the query returning a result if any
        $users = $query->execute();


        if($user==$users)
        {
            echo "Email already exists";
        }

        else if ($success)
        {
            echo "Thanks for registering!";
        } else
            {
            echo "Sorry, the following problems were generated: ";

            $messages = $user->getMessages();

            foreach ($messages as $message) {
                echo $message->getMessage(), "<br/>";
            }
        }


        $this->view->disable();
    }
}

what i am trying to do is to check if the given email is already registerd in the database.

I tried to do that with this part of the code

// Instantiate the Query
        $query = new Query(
            'SELECT email FROM users',
            $this->getDI()
        );

        // Execute the query returning a result if any
        $users = $query->execute();


        if($user==$users)
        {
            echo "Email already exists";
        }

It doesn't seems to work and I am getting the following error

"Exception: Can't obtain model's source from models list: 'Users', when preparing: SELECT email FROM users"

My models list code is the following

<?php

use Phalcon\Mvc\Model;

class Users extends Model
{
    public $id;
    public $name;
    public $email;
}

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong or how I suppose to check if the given email is already added to the database and then "echo" the appropriate message .

Thanks in advance for your time

Final worked Code

<?php

use Phalcon\Mvc\Controller;


class SignupController extends Controller
{
    public function indexAction()
    {

    }

    public function getSource()
    {
        return 'users';
    }




    public function registerAction()
    {

        $user = new Users();

        $email = $this->request->getPost('email', 'string', '');
        $result = users::findFirst(
            [
                'conditions' => 'email = :email:',
                'bind' => [
                    'email' => $email,
                ]
            ]
        );

        if (false !== $result) {
            echo 'The email exists in the database';
        } else {

            // Store and check for errors
            $success = $user->save(
                $this->request->getPost(),
                [
                    "name",
                    "email",
                ]
            );

            if ($success) {
                echo "Thanks for registering!";
            } else {
                echo "Sorry, the following problems were generated: ";

                $messages = $user->getMessages();

                foreach ($messages as $message) {
                    echo $message->getMessage(), "<br/>";
                }
            }


            $this->view->disable();
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

For your error you need to tell the model what table it maps to:

public function getSource()
{
    return 'users';
}

A bit of an easier approach is using findFirst on the model like this:

$email  = $this->request->getPost('email', 'string', '');
$result = Users::findFirst(
    [
        'conditions' => 'email = :email:',
        'bind'       => [
            'email' => $email,
        ]
    ]
);

if (false !== $result) {
    echo 'The email exists in the database';
}

What the above code does: - Get the email from the posted data. Sanitize it as string. If it has not been posted, return an empty string - Search the Users model for an email that exists in any record for the email field. - If nothing has been returned continue, if a match has been found echo the result out.