<?php
class FooBarsController extends AppController {
var $name = 'FooBars';
}
?>

I followed the same convention (didn’t read the docs very closely) and just got all kinds of errors. After digging a bit deeper, turns out AppController extends Controller…apparently it can’t extend itself

Hopefully this’ll save some time for someone, but the full controller for the example in the cookbook for the app_controller.php is this:

<?php
class AppController extends Controller {
var $components = array('Auth', 'Acl');
function beforeFilter() {
//Configure AuthComponent
$this->Auth->authorize = 'actions';
$this->Auth->loginAction = array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'login');
$this->Auth->logoutRedirect = array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'login');
$this->Auth->loginRedirect = array('controller' => 'posts', 'action' => 'add');
}
}
?>