How do I configure CakePHP to detect my development / production environments or do I just keep the config files out of version control?

Question

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

If I understood the question correctly, this might be the thing you need:

Automatically choose database connections in CakePHP

Briefly, override the DATABASE_CONFIG constructor:

class DATABASE_CONFIG
{
    //initalize variable as null
    var $default=null;

    //set up connection details to use in Live production server
    var $prod = 
        array(
            // ...
        );

    // and details to use on your local machine for testing and development
    var $dev = 
        array(
            // ...
        );

    function __construct ()
    {       
        if(isset($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'])){
            switch($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']){
                case 'digbiz.localhost':
                    $this->default = $this->dev;
                    break;
                case 'digbiz.example.com':
                    $this->default = $this->prod;
                    break;
            }
        }
        else // we are likely baking, use our local db
        {
            $this->default = $this->dev;
        }
    }
}