Well I'm a beginner too, but I can start you out with some
encouragement at least, and some advice. First of all, I think you've
chosen the right framework: It sounds like your application is exactly
what CakePHP was built for. Here's the process that I've gone through,
which has worked for me.
1)
Thanks Ben, I was having the same problem. I knew it had to be
something with MySQL, and not with Cake's scaffolding. For anyone else
having this problem, edit the MySQL configuration file, which is
probably called my.ini, and is located in the MySQL installation
directory (if you're running windo
I completely agree with the comment about the API. I realize it is a
very technical document with a specific purpose, but a few lines of
example code here and there would broaden its reach to many more
users. I also agree with the sentiment about wanting to contribute but
being unsure of one's qua