The Bakery Everything CakePHP

Adjusting the index.php and using bake.php can be annoying if you have your cake directory tucked away deep in your folder structure or on another partition. With two versions of Cake, this becomes even more annoying. I dont know how they ended up there, but luckily the symlink has come to the rescue once again.

I work on OSX, so your commands and results may vary depending on your operating system. Also, this assumes you use svn, if you dont go get it. If not, then you can still make use of the symlink part, but you will not have as much fun. The $ represents a command line entry.

Grab the repos

The trunk is the current stable version

$ svn co https://svn.cakephp.org/repo/trunk /path/to/my/other/partition/and/cake/directory/1.1.x.x
1.2 is currently here:

$ https://svn.cakephp.org/repo/branches/1.2.x.x /path/to/my/other/partition/and/cake/directory/1.2.x.x


Create the symlinks


$ ln -s /path/to/my/other/partition/and/cake/directory/1.1.x.x /cake/1.1.x.x
$ ln -s /path/to/my/other/partition/and/cake/directory/1.1.x.x /cake/1.2.x.x

Now, when we refer to /cake/1.1.x.x or /cake/1.2.x.x, we know we are accessing the latest version of CakePHP 1.2.

We can access the bake script with:

$ cd /cake/1.1.x.x/cake/scripts
$ php bake.php -project
or
$ cd /cake/1.2.x.x/cake/scripts
$ php bake.php -project

The code in /app/webroot/index.php might look like:

define('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH', '/cake/1.1.x.x');
or
define('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH', '/cake/1.2.x.x');