CakePHP ‘Class’ String Not Found Fatal Error and Solution

While following the IBM Cooking Websites Fast with CakePHP Series Part 2, I get a weird error message each time I try to create an ARO from the console. I’m using CakePHP Beta: 1.2.0.6311 at this time of speaking.

The BIG FAT BUG
According to the tutorial, you will be creating two ARO user groups, Users and Dealers, from /cake/console:

php acl.php create aro 0 null Users
php acl.php create aro 0 null Dealers

which give me back:

Could not open input file: acl.php

After searching elsewhere, I’ve found you can do the same thing using:

cake acl create aro 0 Users

* You probably would want to stick with this way of creating ARO using the console anyway, as I think the previous method won’t work anymore as it seems there’s a file path/location problem

which then gives me back:

Fatal error: Class ‘String’ not found in …./cake/libs/model/datasources/dbo_source.php on line 1455

Finally, THE SOLUTION
Go into dbo_source.php and edit line 29 so that it looks like:

uses(‘set’, ‘string’);

Now go back to ….cake/console and run

cake acl create aro 0 Users

which will then give you back what you are looking for:

New Aro ‘Users’ created.

That’s all. Have fun baking!