I thought to mention a few errors beginners into CakePHP might come across when configuring CakePHP and how to resolve
Notice: this error is being rendered by the app/views/errors/missing_table.thtml view file, a user-customizable error page.
This error occurs when the database is not configured in cakePhp. First create a database in MySQL or the database of your choice. Go to /app/config/ and make a copy of database.php.default and rename it to database.php. Open database.php and give the necessary settings of the new database created with the associated login credentials. Once that is done, refresh the page and see if that error is now resolved.
You will see a message “Cake is able to connect to the database.” to indicate that the database connection was established and everything is working as expected.
Another most common notice that you might come across is related to Security.salt settings
Notice (1024): Please change the value of ‘Security.salt’ in app/config/core.php to a salt value specific to your application [CORE\cake\libs\debugger.php, line 557]
Around line 151 in app/config/core.php, you will notice a line that has the following configuration
Configure::write(‘Security.salt’, ‘FsjdjnbD23qyJfIjhg2G0FgaC9mi’);
Change the salt value ONLY in app/config/core.php and refresh the web page. Now that notice will vanish. Do NOT make changes to the Security.salt parameter in cakecake/libs/debugger.php, even if you change it ensure that it does not remain the same as the one in core.php. If the salt values in both these files are same, then you will get notice warning message.
