I experienced a similar issue, basically it was impossible to define TMP in cake.php. The below patch has being merged into the 2.4 branch.
https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/commit/9c113247de151a15340231013926ed08fd8f61ee On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Chris Cinelli < chris.cine...@formativelearning.com> wrote: > We are using CakePHP 2.2.3. We moved the tmp folder from /app/tmp to /tmp (to > the same level of /app). So we removed the /app/tmp folder and we added > these lines to /app/webroot/index.php: > > //We like the TMP folder outside the app folder! > define('TMP', dirname(dirname(dirname(dirname(__FILE__)))).DS.'tmp'.DS); > > Every once in a while we have problems with Console shell scripts. > With CORE_DEBUG > 0 everything works fine but when CORE_DEBUG = 0 we get > strange error (Ex: table does not exist when instead it exists in the DB). > Again everything works with CORE_DEBUG > 0. > > The workaround has been deleting the files in: > /lib/Cake/Console/Templates/skel/tmp/cache/models/ > > Some questions: > > 1. Why are not the cache files being updated? What is the cache logic? > 2. In ShellDispatcher.php in function _bootstrap(), There is this: > if (!is_dir(ROOT . DS . APP_DIR . DS . 'tmp')) { > define('TMP', CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH . DS . 'Cake' . DS . 'Console' > . DS . 'Templates' . DS . 'skel' . DS . 'tmp' . DS); > } > This is pretty awkward. So : > 1. Why is the cache set in this almost impossible to find folder > inside the cake core /lib folder ? > 2. Why the condition is if (!is_dir(ROOT . DS . APP_DIR . DS . > 'tmp')) ... instead of if (defined('TMP')) ... ? > This prevents to define TMP in /app/Console/cake.php and the only > way to fix is to mess up with ShellDispatcher.php under /lib that makes > updating CakePHP a little more error prone (we need to remember that we > change stuff in /lib) > > > -- > Best, > Chris > > --Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler (Albert > Einstein) > Read it as: "As simple as possible, as complex as necessary" > > -- > Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP > Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CakePHP" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Simon Males -- Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
