Thanks Martin,
I still am trying to wrap my head around the workflow... so now that I
have my database running and the cake folder in htdocs... what do I do
now? Is the app folder where I do my development? Do I have to create
a folder for my project? Where do I bake? In the app folder or
I have been developing in folders like project_name for years and I
like it. I only need to keep and manage one Cake installation and it
keeps my clutter of files to a minimum :)
The way I host that locally is with one virtual host for each project.
I point the Apache root folder for each one to
A few points for installing Cake to run in Mamp.
Simplest way is to drop the whole Cake folder (containing
cake,app,vendors...) into Mamp's htdocs folder.
Should be: /Applications/MAMP/htdocs
That should have Cake running but you probably need / want the
database too, right. You need to rename
Thanks, that's really helpful. I now have CakePHP using MAMP MySQL and
PHP5. Another question... what is the usual workflow. Do I create a
copy of the Cake/app folder for my project (project_name)? Do I bake
in another directory or directly into my Cake/project_name folder? I
notice in the
That's where ModelBaker comes in to be handy. You can make separate
project files and have separate project folders each using separate
databases.
You may want to pick up a copy of VirtualHost in order to be able to
test multiple sites (aka multiple projects) at the same time. You can
Anyone have any idea on how to do this? I have MAMP and Eclipse
installed correctly and have been doing PHP development for a while
now and everything works fine. I now want to jump into CakePHP but
can't wrap my head around setting it up. Any insight and or steps on
getting there would be great.
Hey Kludge!
Try going to www.widgetpress.com and checking out ModelBaker. It is a
Mac front-end to CakePHP so that you never have to use the CLI. The
product has a graphical representation of the database model you are
creating for the project.
ModelBaker is not an end-all solution. It is
