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Cake Bake – Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() when using MAMP and CakePHP

If you receive an error like this make sure that your path has been added to and exported. Like a da so: 

export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/bin:$PATH

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By Tom
July 1, 2008

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  1. Dan Hilton said
    on October 22, 2008

    Sweet! Cheers, all hail the LazyWeb!

  2. Nick Carter said
    on March 27, 2009

    Many thanks for this quick and easy fix. Dunno why I didn’t think of it myself!

  3. Rodrigo said
    on August 4, 2009

    or just in case you can try to put libmysql.php in system32

  4. Tom said
    on August 4, 2009

    Rodrigo: That might be a solution on Windows or with WAMP or XAMPP but Mac doesn’t have a System32, we are just like Unix and have to export paths to make things universal, suppose you could drop a SymLink into bin somewhere but easier to just add to path.

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