I am currently learning cakephp for the very first time ever by
reading a book called "Beginning CakePHP: From Novice to
Professional" by David Golding. I am in the beginning chapters where
it shows how to create a to-do list CakePHP application. He
recommends first creating a model and saving it to your application
model folder. It is as follows:
<?php
class Item extends AppModel {var $name='Item';}
?>
Next he recommends making a controller and saving it to your
controller folder. It is as follows:
<?php
class ItemsController extends AppController
{
var $name = 'Items';
var $scaffold;
}
?>
He said also to reconfigure your database access folder. I've done it
as such:
<?php
/**
* This is core configuration file.
*
* Use it to configure core behaviour ofCake.
*
* PHP versions 4 and 5
*
* CakePHP(tm) : Rapid Development Framework (http://cakephp.org)
* Copyright 2005-2010, Cake Software Foundation, Inc. (http://
cakefoundation.org)
*
* Licensed under The MIT License
* Redistributions of files must retain the above copyright notice.
*
* @copyright Copyright 2005-2010, Cake Software Foundation, Inc.
(http://cakefoundation.org)
* @link http://cakephp.org CakePHP(tm) Project
* @package cake
* @subpackage cake.app.config
* @since CakePHP(tm) v 0.2.9
* @license MIT License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-
license.php)
*/
/**
* In this file you set up your database connection details.
*
* @package cake
* @subpackage cake.config
*/
/**
* Database configuration class.
* You can specify multiple configurations for production, development
and testing.
*
* driver => The name of a supported driver; valid options are as
follows:
* mysql - MySQL 4 & 5,
* mysqli - MySQL 4 & 5 Improved Interface (PHP5 only),
* sqlite - SQLite (PHP5 only),
* postgres - PostgreSQL 7 and higher,
* mssql - Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and higher,
* db2 - IBM DB2, Cloudscape, and Apache Derby
(http://php.net/ibm-
db2)
* oracle - Oracle 8 and higher
* firebird - Firebird/Interbase
* sybase - Sybase ASE
* adodb-[drivername] - ADOdb interface wrapper (see below),
* odbc - ODBC DBO driver
*
* You can add custom database drivers (or override existing drivers)
by adding the
* appropriate file to app/models/datasources/dbo. Drivers should be
named 'dbo_x.php',
* where 'x' is the name of the database.
*
* persistent => true / false
* Determines whether or not the database should use a persistent
connection
*
* connect =>
* ADOdb set the connect to one of these
* (http://phplens.com/adodb/supported.databases.html) and
* append it '|p' for persistent connection. (mssql|p for example, or
just mssql for not persistent)
* For all other databases, this setting is deprecated.
*
* host =>
* the host you connect to the database. To add a socket or port
number, use 'port' => #
*
* prefix =>
* Uses the given prefix for all the tables in this database. This
setting can be overridden
* on a per-table basis with the Model::$tablePrefix property.
*
* schema =>
* For Postgres and DB2, specifies which schema you would like to use
the tables in. Postgres defaults to
* 'public', DB2 defaults to empty.
*
* encoding =>
* For MySQL, MySQLi, Postgres and DB2, specifies the character
encoding to use when connecting to the
* database. Uses database default.
*
*/
class DATABASE_CONFIG {
var $default = array(
'driver' => 'mysql',
'persistent' => false,
'host' => 'localhost',
'login' => 'root',
'password' => '',
'database' => 'cake',
'prefix' => '',
);
/*var $test = array(
'driver' => 'mysql',
'persistent' => false,
'host' => 'localhost',
'login' => 'user',
'password' => 'password',
'database' => 'test_database_name',
'prefix' => '',
);*/
}
and I also have make a cake database on my localhost, which he also
said to do.
Now, all that said. Whenever I try to access what I have done so far
with Firefox, I get a message saying that it could not find the
database. Could someone help me please?!?
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