Configuring cake php in XAMPP

CakePHP is an open source web application framework written in PHP, modeled after the concepts of Ruby on Rails, and distributed under the MIT License.

Here the configuration

First install xampp which consists of Apache, PHP, and MySQL. The install process just copies some files to a specified folder.

Next

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Let’s take a look at what CakePHP looks like right out of the box. You know what CakePHP looks like from a basic MVC request standpoint, but you’ll need to know how its files are organized as well.

• app
• cake
• docs
• index.php
• vendors

When you download CakePHP, you will see four main folders. The app folder will be where you work your magic: it’s where your application’s files will be placed. The cake folder is where we’ve worked our magic. Make a personal commitment not to edit files in this folder. We can’t help you if you’ve modified the core. The docs folder is for the quintessential readme, changelog, and licensing information. Finally, the vendors folder is where you’ll place third-party PHP libraries you need to use with your CakePHP applications

CakePHP’s app folder is where you will do most of your application development. Let’s look a little closer and the folders inside of app.

config

Holds the (few) configuration files CakePHP uses. Database connection details, bootstrapping, core configuration files and more should be stored here.

controllers

Contains your application’s controllers and their components.

locale

Stores string files for internationalization.

models

Contains your application’s models, behaviors, and datasources.

plugins

Contains plugin packages.

tmp

This is where CakePHP stores temporary data. The actual data it stores depends on how you have CakePHP configured, but this folder is usually used to store model descriptions, logs, and sometimes session information.

vendors

Any third-party classes or libraries should be placed here. Doing so makes them easy to access using the vendor() function. Keen observers will note that this seems redundant, as there is also a vendors folder at the top level of our directory structure. We’ll get into the differences between the two when we discuss managing multiple applications and more complex system setups.

views

Presentational files are placed here: elements, error pages, helpers, layouts, and view files.

webroot

In a production setup, this folder should serve as the document root for your application. Folders here also serve as holding places for CSS stylesheets, images, and JavaScript files.

Steps

• After that open “httpd.conf” located on “apache\conf” folder. Then uncomment the line that contains “mod_rewrite”
• Afterwards, extract Cake somewhere in the “htdocs” folder. I usually put it in “htdocs\cake”.
• The last step is to copy “database.php.default” in “app\config” of Cake’s folder to “database.php”. Then change the “$default” variable to suit your database settings

An example is:

class DATABASE_CONFIG
{
   var $default = array('driver' => 'mysql',
      'connect' => 'mysql_connect',
      'host' => 'localhost',
      'login' => 'root',
      'password' => '',
      'database' => 'test',
      'prefix' => '');
}

Which works with the default MySQL in xampp

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