Production and Dev Databases in CakePHP: an Even Simpler Explaination
The below-linked article is an excellent example of how to use multiple databases in CakePHP, with an eye towards having a production, development and potentially, even more environments with which to work. Easy peasy database config (Articles) | The Bakery, Everything CakePHP: Like a lot of developers out there, I use Subversion to keep control of my code and projects, and I also use a different database for development and production. But when using Cake this can be a problem when checking out my code from development to production. Unless I edit my database.php with my production config, the production [...]

