Cakephp Model won't save form input - php

Question

I have a very simple model User, and it's associated table users with fields 'id', 'username', 'password', 'role', 'created', 'modified'.
The view add.ctp contains:
<div class="users form">
<?= $this->Form->create('user'); ?>
<fieldset>
<legend><?= __('Add user');?></legend>
<?= $this->Form->input('user.username'); ?>
<?= $this->Form->input('password'); ?>
<?= $this->Form->input('role', array('options' => array('admin' => 'Admin', 'customer' => 'Customer'))); ?>
</fieldset>
<?= $this->Form->end(__('Submit')); ?>
</div>
The model is set up according to http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/tutorials-and-examples/blog-auth-example/auth.html:
class User extends AppModel {
public $validate = array(
'username' => array(
'required' => array(
'rule' => array('notEmpty'),
'message' => 'You must specify a username'
)
),
'password' => array(
'required' => array(
'rule' => array('notEmpty'),
'message' => 'You must specify a password'
)
),
'role' => array(
'valid' => array(
'rule' => array('inList', array('admin','customer')),
'message' => 'You must specify a valid role',
'allowEmpty'=> false
)
)
);
}
And lastly, the controller simply has:
public function add() {
if($this->request->is('post')) {
$this->User->create();
if ($this->User->save($this->request->data)) {
$this->set('stuff', $this->User->data);
$this->Session->setFlash(__('The user has been saved.'));
//return $this->redirect(array('action' => 'index'));
} else {
$this->Session->setFlash(__('The user could not be saved. Please try again.'));
}
}
}
I've commented out the redirect on success to be able to show the INSERT query on submit (if I allow the redirect, the only query being shown is SELECT's)
So, quite simple, the problem is, when the form is submitted, it generates this query:
INSERT INTO `mytable`.`users` (`modified`, `created`) VALUES ('2014-02-21 13:03:11', '2014-02-21 13:03:11')
How can I determine why it won't insert the submitted fields? And how can I make it?

Answer 1

use this <?= $this->Form->create('User'); ?> instead of <?= $this->Form->create('user'); ?>
and use this <?= $this->Form->input('User.username'); ?> instead of <?= $this->Form->input('user.username'); ?>
CakePHP is case sensitive model name must be in CamalCase