[CakePHP] Environment detection and setup

Question

Hello folks,
I am a RoR developer, but I am presently working with CakePHP for a project where I cannot tweak the server. In my Rails production server, Passenger is setup to automatically use the "Production" environment, overriding the local app setup. I would like to setup my cakephp app to do the same thing. How do you usually accomplish that with CakePHP? Do you set up a domain parser, or you just keep core.php and database.php out of version control? Thanks in advance, Davide

Answer 1

You could just create an extra file that holds the single Configure::write('debug', 0)* directive, import that in the core.php file and keep it out of version control. Best of both worlds.

*or whatever else you need to change

Answer 2

For the database, you could set up the local and production connection settings and then create the file app/app_model.php and include the line:

class AppModel extends Model
{
  var $useDbConfig = 'production';
}

Then you could create the file app/app_controller.php and parse the domains and tell it which dbconfig to use and any other core.php settings by using Configure::write.

Answer 3

Hmm..if I understood the question correctly, this might be the thing you need:

Automatically choose database connections in CakePHP