Cakephp installation issues

I got issues with database connection.The error says:

Cake is NOT able to connect to the database.

Database connection "Mysql" is missing, or could not be created.

I created a database in PHPMYADMIN with name cake in WAMP.I havent set password for the database.My user privileges has user name as root.Any help would be appreciated.

I found this thread. Do you have PDO enabled? I don't think WAMP has it enabled by default.

Hi,

Double check that your app/Config/database.php is properly filled up with your database credentials. You need to fill up two of them like so..

class DATABASE_CONFIG {

    public $default = array(
       'datasource' => 'Database/Mysql',
       'persistent' => false,
       'host' => 'localhost',
       'login' => 'root',
       'password' => '',
       'database' => 'cake',
       'prefix' => '',
       //'encoding' => 'utf8',
     );

    public $test = array(
       'datasource' => 'Database/Mysql',
       'persistent' => false,
       'host' => 'localhost',
       'login' => 'root',
       'password' => '',
       'database' => 'cake',
       'prefix' => '',
      //'encoding' => 'utf8',
   );

If that does not do the trick, try writing a simple database connection script and use the same credentials as you have for your cake php. Something like this

<?php
 $db_host = "localhost";
 $db_user = "root";
 $db_password = "";
 $db_database ="cake";

 $conn = mysql_connect($db_host,$db_user,$db_password) or die(mysql_error());
 echo "connected to your mysql<br/>";
 $db = mysql_select_db($db_database,$conn)  or die(mysql_error()); 
 echo "connected to ".$db_database;

If the two options above do not make the cut.. Dump the WAMP, and try XAMPP.. Running this XAMPP on any thumbdrive. I have Zend, Igniter, and CAKE. I am running them on the same thumbdrive powered by xampp.

For my linux box, I am also running xampp with Zend, Igniter, Cake, and ffmpeg php with all the trimmings and dlls...More likely it is the WAMP that is faulty..

go to app/Config/core.php and change the default value to any as you wish

/* below are just examples */

Configure::write('Security.salt', 'hG93b0qyJfIxfs2guVoUubWwvniR2G0FgaC9');

Configure::write('Security.cipherSeed', '8593096574535424967496836');

this will solve two errors.For database error you can follow veedeoo 's answer.

Even after applying all the changes given as above if you face errors then i hope this post can help you : Cakephp installation