PDO is not working with CakePHP installation - php

Question

I am configuring a cakePHP application, but the app doesn't seems to connect successfully to DB, I got the following error:
Cake is NOT able to connect to the database.
Database connection "Mysql" is missing, or could not be created.
I renamed the database.php.default to database.php and here is the code:
class DATABASE_CONFIG {
public $default = array(
'datasource' => 'Database/Mysql',
'persistent' => false,
'host' => 'localhost:8889',
'login' => 'root',
'password' => 'root',
'database' => 'cakephpdb',
'prefix' => '',
'encoding' => 'utf8',
);
}
Actually, I know CakePHP use PDO driver to connect to DB, so I tried to run a separate file just to test whether the PDO is true of false:
<?php
var_dump( extension_loaded('pdo_mysql') );
?>
And it's false:
bool(false)
I tried to enable PDO in php.ini file:
extension=php_pdo_mysql.so
Restarted MAMP, but still the same error for cakePHP app. Am I missing something? how do you make sure PDO is enabled in your cases? Thanx in advance.
EDIT:
When running phpinfo(), the PDO_MySQL is not enabled:
The php.ini path is the follwoing, according to phpinfo() output:
/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/conf
So I tried to edit the php.ini file at that path and here is the relevant settings:
extension=imap.so
extension=yaz.so
extension=mcrypt.so
extension=gettext.so
extension=pgsql.so
extension=pdo_pgsql.so
extension=pdo_mysql.so
pdo_mysql.default_socket=/tmp/mysql.sock
mysql.default_socket = /tmp/mysql.sock
Also, I tried to test the DB connection in a php script:
try {
$dbh = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=db_name', 'localhost', 'root');
echo '<br /> success';
} catch (PDOException $e) {
print "Error !: " . $e->getMessage() . "<br/>";
die();
}
And I gto always the following error:
Error !: could not find driver
So the PDO_Mysql driver is not loaded, and that's clear from the phpinfo() output. Out to fix that?

Answer 1

Have you confirmed whether you're updating the correct php.ini? For XAMPP, there is a php.ini for the console, and another for the webserver. You might be updating the incorrect one.