create a file named info.php with the following: <?php phpinfo(); ?>
Place that in app/webroot and open it in your browser. This will show you a bunch of configuration, extension, and environment info. Near the top will be the switches that were used to compile PHP. You should see --with-mysql in there somewhere (I think--I really have no idea what this output looks like on a Windows box). Then scroll down to make sure there's an entry for MySQL. Also, open a terminal and try connecting to mysql using the username & password in your database.php file. On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:44 AM, psiborg <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm using mySQL, because that's what the client is using...to my > knowledge. I'm so new at this, I don't even know what you mean by > running a phpinfo script... > > Currently, the location of my database.php file is: \xampp\htdocs\app > \config\database.php > > The relevant portion of the database.php file is what I was seeing in > the tutorial listing...: > > class DATABASE_CONFIG { > > var $default = array( > 'driver' => 'mysql', > 'persistent' => false, > 'host' => 'localhost', > 'port' => '', > 'login' => 'cakeBlog', > 'password' => 'c4k3-rU13Z', > 'database' => 'cake_blog_tutorial', > 'schema' => '', > 'prefix' => '', > 'encoding' => '' > ); > > var $test = array( > 'driver' => 'mysql', > 'persistent' => false, > 'host' => 'localhost', > 'login' => 'user', > 'password' => 'password', > 'database' => 'test_database_name', > 'prefix' => '', > ); > } > > Is there some other way that I'm supposed to access Cake, say "http:// > localhost/cake", because that just gets me error messages about a lack > of controllers and the like... > > > On Feb 20, 8:25 am, Stu <[email protected]> wrote: >> hehe, takes me back to last month when i started using cake. Pretty >> much had all the same issues. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
