Question

I want to a create a config file for site configuration. I create config.php and put it into the Config folder. It’s its content:

<?php
Configure::write('Title', 'My App');
Configure::write('Categories', array(
    'Recipes' => 
        array('url' => '/recipe', 'max' => 10),
    'Foods' => 
        array('url' => '/food', 'max' => 5)
));

And put this code at the end of bootstrap.php:

Configure::load('config');

But cake returns this error:

No variable $config found in ...........\app\Config\config.php.php

Error: An Internal Error Has Occurred.

Stack Trace

    CORE\Cake\Core\Configure.php line 272 → PhpReader->read(string)
    APP\Config\bootstrap.php line 110 → Configure::load(string)
    CORE\Cake\Core\Configure.php line 92 → include(string)
    CORE\Cake\bootstrap.php line 142 → Configure::bootstrap(boolean)
    APP\webroot\index.php line 79 → include(string)

What’s the problem??

Note: I’m using the latest version: 2.2.1 Stable

Answer 1

In your config file you should be using an array variable called $config instead of Configure::write if you want to use load() with the default PhpReader. See API

Ex.

<?php
$config = array(
    'Title' => 'MyApp',
    ...
);

http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/development/configuration.html#built-in-configuration-readers