Comments on: cakephp on os x can’t connect to mysql

By: Akshay

Akshay — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:05:44 +0000

Thanks mate, Was very helpful in a moment of need.

Cheers...

By: Tim R.

Tim R. — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:47:59 +0000

If you are using xampp rather than the Apple webserver, you will need to tell cake (and the bash shell generally) to use that php installation instead of the apple one. Instead of editing your php.ini, just enter this line in your shall before calling cake:

export PATH=/Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/bin:$PATH

If you place that line in your bash .profile, you will now normally execute php scripts (like cake) using the xampp php installation instead of the Apple one.

If you are using mamp or have xampp installed in a non-standard place, adjust your path/to/php accordingly. Obviously if you are using tcsh or another shell, you'll also have to adapt these instructions to how you set environment variables in another shell.

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:08:03 +0000

Thanks a lot

By: maca

maca — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:56:54 +0000

hey!!! perfect! works ok!

sos un capo!

my thanks... from argentina

By: jeremy

jeremy — Sun, 04 May 2008 01:11:03 +0000

excellent, glad i be of some help!

By: Bob Kremmins

Bob Kremmins — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:25:12 +0000

Thanks a lot for the help!

Just what I needed!