Dessert #5 - Keep a custom configuration file
Posted on 16/9/06 by Felix Geisendörfer
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One thing that I found pretty useful when developing CakePHP applications, is to put an additional configuration file with definitions and settings specific to the current project into the /app/config folder. So for example when working on an application called lugsteinhof, I would put this into my bootstrap.php:
Then I would create a file in /app/config/ called lugsteinhof.php and fill it with information like this:
/**
* Figure out whether the script is running on the local development machine, or
* in an production enviornment. You can also manually define this value above
* in which case the code below won't get executed
*/
if (!defined('SERVER_ENVIRONMENT'))
{
if (strpos(env('DOCUMENT_ROOT'), 'C:/Localhost')!==false)
define('SERVER_ENVIRONMENT', 'development');
else
define('SERVER_ENVIRONMENT', 'production');
}
/**
* The default theme if none is available via database
*/
define('DEFAULT_THEME', 'summer');
// More definitions and settings ...
Oh and if you are curious about the SERVER_ENVIORNMENT definition, I use it to automatically switch between development & production database configuration. To do this I simply modified my /app/config/database.php like this:
{
var $default = null;
var $development = array('driver' => 'mysql',
'connect' => 'mysql_connect',
'host' => 'localhost',
'login' => 'production-user',
'password' => 'production-pw',
'database' => 'lugsteinhof',
'prefix' => '');
var $production = array('driver' => 'mysql',
'connect' => 'mysql_connect',
'host' => 'localhost',
'login' => 'dev-user',
'password' => 'dev-pw',
'database' => 'dev-lugsteinhof',
'prefix' => '');
function DATABASE_CONFIG()
{
$this->default = $this->{SERVER_ENVIRONMENT};
}
}
Btw., I took the idea of automatically checking whether the code is running on my dev machine or in production enviornment from Jonathan Snook's post called Ease Deployment with Automatic Server Check.
--Felix Geisendörfer aka the_undefined
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Very good tips! I actually have a few more items in a custom config file, depending on the project and its needs. Having a switch for development/production is such a timesaver - no matter what the size of the project. You can do many other things with this as well.
I am curious for exampleof how you set theme using:
define('DEFAULT_THEME', 'summer');
Thankx!
John
jacmgr: You mean you want to see an example for theming in CakePHP? Yeah, I think I should write about this, that's a good idea ; ).
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