Question

What is the best way in CakePHP to have multiple database configuration that is going to be used based on environment?

Say I have a staging, prod and dev server.

Thank you,
Tee

Answer 1

You can set it in your constructor.

class DATABASE_CONFIG {

    var $live = array(
        'driver' => 'mysql',
        'persistent' => false,
        'host' => 'mysql.live.com',
        'login' => 'root',
        'password' => '',
        'database' => '',
        'prefix' => '',
    );

   var $default = array(
        'driver' => 'mysql',
        'persistent' => false,
        'host' => 'localhost',
        'login' => 'root',
        'password' => '',
        'database' => '',
        'prefix' => '',
    );


        public function __construct() {
        if (isset($_SERVER) && isset($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'])) {
            if (strpos($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'], 'localhost') === false) {
                $this->default  = $this->live;
            }       
        }
    }
}

This will basically switch your configuration based on where you are.