It may not be the best place but I would probably put that check in my AppController, in the constructor or a before filter. THat way you have access to all of Cake and can check the connection. I don't know the best way to do this either but two possibilities would be either something like loadInfo() in a model or directly calling ConnectionManager::getDataSource(). You could probably make use of ConnectionManager from bootstrap too.
I'd love to hear some other ideas that may be better suited. (my vauge answers can in part be attributed to not having any cake-app in front of me at the moment) On Dec 17, 6:12 pm, RichardAtHome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's called 'write code that actually checks for errors'. This is an > > issue for any application, and I cannot think of any framework that > > automatically gives you that kind of functionality. What you call > > 'automatic' is the result of a forward-thinking developer who made a > > commitment to proper error handling. > > Yup, true. But, how *would* you configure cake to redirect to a site > down page if the database connection failed? > > Some code in bootstrap.php that checks for a connection and then > redirect to pages/site_down for example? > > On Dec 17, 3:41 pm, "Chris Hartjes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 17, 2007 10:28 AM, squidliberty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have on occasion had problems with my hosting during which MySQL is > > > not accessible. The result is that CakePHP renders a malformed page > > > and (if Debug is in use) throws a number of errors (such as "Too many > > > connections"). In this sort of situation, some CMS (eg. Joomla!) will > > > automatically throw up a "This site is down" page. Can anyone tell me > > > how this might be done with CakePHP? I assume that there is some way > > > to check for a proper database connection and generate an error > > > message if one cannot be established. Any advice appreciated! > > > It's called 'write code that actually checks for errors'. This is an > > issue for any application, and I cannot think of any framework that > > automatically gives you that kind of functionality. What you call > > 'automatic' is the result of a forward-thinking developer who made a > > commitment to proper error handling. > > > -- > > Chris Hartjes > > > My motto for 2007: "Just build it, damnit!" > > > @TheKeyboard -http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
