CakePHP: Beginners installation hurdles – Errors and Solutions

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. (more…)