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CakePHP: Calling bake from every dev-app install folder


If you use a setup like I explained in my previous post calling the bake script involves a lot of typing with the core and app parameter paths.
If I want to call the bake script from the /Users/mwesten/Sites/dev/myapp cake app folder, it has to be done like this:
php /Users/mwesten/Sites/cake1.2.x.x/cake/scripts/bake.php -core /Users/mwesten/Sites/cake1.2.x.x/cake -app /Users/mwesten/Sites/dev/myapp
To make [...]

CakePHP: Central cake core install with multiple apps


When developing on my system I like to use only one version of the core files. If I update the core files from svn it gets updated for all apps I’m working on.
The way I’m using this is explained below:
In my web-root I do an svn export of cake latest:
cd /Users/mwesten/Sites
svn export https://svn.cakephp.org/repo/branches/1.2.x.x/ cake1.2.x.x
Now we [...]

CakePHP on OSX: Problem using Bake.php script


If you are getting the following errors while trying to bake something on osx 10.4:
“Warning: mysql_connect(): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through
socket ‘/var/mysql/mysql.sock’ (2) in
/Library/WebServer/Documents/development/bakery/cake/libs/model/dbo/dbo_mysql.php
on line 117″
try doing the following:
sudo ln -s /tmp /var/mysql
Or you could follow the instruction given by Apple: Mac OS X Server 10.4: Issues connecting PHP to MySQL