Core overwrites

Overwriting stuff in core.php

This little snippet allows you to automatically keep debug 0 for all domains except for the local invironment:

Configure::write('debug', 0);
if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']) && in_array($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'], array('localhost', 'mydomain.local'))) {
	Configure::write('debug', 2);
}

The ErrorHandler can get overwritten by the Tools one:

App::uses('MyErrorHandler', 'Tools.Error');
Configure::write('Error', array(
	'handler' => 'MyErrorHandler::handleError',
	'level' => E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED,
	'trace' => true
));

Same for ExceptionHandler:

Configure::write('Exception', array(
	'handler' => 'MyErrorHandler::handleException',
	'renderer' => 'Tools.MyExceptionRenderer',
	'log' => true
));

This useful snippet allows you to catch all logging streams that are not caught yet:

App::uses('CakeLog', 'Log');
CakeLog::config('default', array('engine' => 'FileLog'));

Don't forget to raise the cookieTimeout to avoid too early session kills:

Configure::write('Session', array(
	...
	'timeout' => 6000, // minutes, updates each page hit
	'cookieTimeout' => 80000, // minutes, fixed value
));