Must manually load PHP ActiveRecord models - nginx

Question

I'm drawing a blank. I have code working locally (which is MAMP). When moving to a nginx ubuntu box (running php-fpm), for some reason, phpactiverecord is acting up.
I finally traced it down to this - All of my model classes, I have to load manually. If I add a require_once() underneath my code, then it works fine. If I don't, then I get errors like:
PHP Fatal Error: Class not found ... on the models I've created..
Does anyone have ANY idea what direction I could troubleshoot this in? I checked permissions to the models folder (which is not in the public root), echo'd out the path that is sent over to cfg->set_model_directory is correct, etc..
This sound like a nginx or php thing? I'm guessing nginx since this works on my MAMP?
Doesn't work:
ActiveRecord\Config::initialize(
function ($cfg) {
$cfg->set_model_directory(BASE_PATH . '/models');
$cfg->set_connections(
array(
'development' => 'mysql://blah:removed#localhost/com_dbname'
)
);
}
);
Works:
ActiveRecord\Config::initialize(
function ($cfg) {
$cfg->set_model_directory(BASE_PATH . '/models');
$cfg->set_connections(
array(
'development' => 'mysql://blah:removed#localhost/com_dbname'
)
);
}
);
require_once(BASE_PATH . '/models/model1.php');
require_once(BASE_PATH . '/models/model2.php');
Update
Adding in actual code to help identify issue:
require_once ('../lib/php-activerecord/ActiveRecord.php');
ActiveRecord\Config::initialize(
function ($cfg) {
$cfg->set_model_directory('/var/www/uc1/models');
$cfg->set_connections(
array(
'development' => 'mysql://test_usr:test_pwd#localhost/test_db'
)
);
}
);
require_once ('/var/www/uc1/models/ucurls.php'); //Name of model file. Must manually include to get this to work on my nginx server.
$_record = UCUrls::find_by_urlkey('example.com/123');
echo "urlkey=" . $_record->urlkey;

Answer 1

I solved this issue in windows adding a line in the file ActiveRecord.php,
in the function activerecord_autoload($class_name)
at the line 39 or 40
$file = "$root/$class_name.php";
//add this line
$file = strtolower($file);

Answer 2

Set trace in ActiveRecord.php too look where are ActiveRecord is searching for models.
But I think your issue is in filesystem - Mac OS X by default uses Case Insensitive filesystem, while Ubuntu's Case Sensitive filesystem.
So your model UCUrls should be in file /var/www/uc1/models/UCUrls.php, not in /var/www/uc1/models/ucurls.php