CakePHP Database connection “Mysql” is missing, or could not be created

Question

There have been several other posts about this, but none of the answers seemed to work for me.

When I navigate to the CakePHP page on my local machine, there is one

Answer 1

An alternative to unix_socket (especially for OS X people) is to replace localhost with 127.0.0.1

Would be as Follows :

public $default = array(
                'datasource' => 'Database/Mysql',
                'persistent' => false,
                'host' => '127.0.0.1',
                'login' => 'user',
                'password' => 'password',
                'database' => 'database-name',
                'prefix' => '',
                'encoding' => 'utf8',
        );