CakePHP Migrations on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Open Terminal and install MDB2:

cd /usr/local
sudo pear install MDB2-2.5.0b2
sudo pear install MDB2_Driver_mysql-1.5.0b2

And then…

Install CakePHP DB Migrations

If MDB2 throws a “Native Code: 2002″ error when you “cake migrate” or “cake populate”, PHP is probably looking for mysql.sock in a place it doesn’t exist. Open /etc/php.ini, and locate the following lines (they exist in separate blocks in php.ini, grouped here for brevity):

pdo_mysql.default_socket = /var/mysql/mysql.sock
mysql.default_socket = /var/mysql/mysql.sock

Then change the lines to read:

pdo_mysql.default_socket =
mysql.default_socket =

By setting an empty default socket, PHP will use the built-in MySOL defaults.

Restart Apache:

sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl restart