cakePHP : Fatal error: Class 'Controller' not found
20 Jun 2011Last Friday, just before turning off my computer and going home, the cake project I'm working on was displaying a scary Fatal error: Class 'Controller' not found in /var/www/project/app/app_controller.php on line 5
Today, I'm getting back to work and here's what happened. After a morning of trial and error, I finally reverted back to a previous svn commit, then re- updated to the latest one and it seemed to solve the issue.
But later on the day, after another update, it started bugging again and the error message wasn't very helpful.
After much googling, this bug report gave me a hint : I had new models but didn't create the corresponding tables. Strangely, creating the missing logs table for my Log class solved the issue.
Hope this blog post will be usefull for anyone else struggling with this error message.
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