Question

I’m migrating my CakePHP site from a local Xampp installation to an EC2 ubuntu environment. I moved over the DB, and copied the web directory files over to the EC2 instance, but upon accessing the site I get this error:

Fatal error: Class 'AppController' not found in /var/www/cakephp/lib/Cake/Controller/CakeErrorController.php on line 31

I looked into the Apache error log and found that the piece it wasn’t liking was this:

$this->Auth->user()['role']

The error said the PHP parser wasn’t expecting the ‘[‘. This all worked fine in the default local Xampp install, so I’m assuming this is a PHP difference between the two installs?

Xampp: PHP 5.4.7
EC2: PHP 5.3.10

Any idea of any settings or anything that could cause this behavior?

Answer 1

That is a new feature in php 5.4 see http://docs.php.net/manual/en/migration54.new-features.php the third bullet item.

For php 5.3 you will need to assign it to a variable

$user = $this->Auth->user()
$role = $user['role'];