PrestaShop on XAMPP and OS X

[mclachlan.m]

I have been trying for 4 days to get PrestaShop to work. I have had one thing after another after another; XAMPP completely refused to work and after trying everything that the entire internet suggested I erased my drive and installed a fresh copy of OS X.

 

Now, OS X and XAMPP are running nice and I can connect to Apache, MySQL, FTPD and phpMyAdmin.

 

I have downloaded prestashop and moved it to /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/prestashop, however, when I open localhost/prestashop it returns localhost/prestashop/install/ and is blank.

 

I have tried looking online and changed /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/prestashop/config/defines.inc.php to:

 

if (!defined('_PS_MODE_DEV_'))

define('_PS_MODE_DEV_', true);          <<===== from false

/* Compatibility warning */

define('_PS_DISPLAY_COMPATIBILITY_WARNING_', true);

if (_PS_MODE_DEV_ === true)

 

Now, when I open localhost/prestashop/install I get:

 

Fatal error: Class 'Tools' not found in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/prestashop/classes/PrestaShopAutoload.php on line 163

 

I have had a look at /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/prestashop/classes/PrestaShopAutoload.php and have absolutely no idea what I'm looking at. This is what I have - with 163 highlighted below:

 

{

$classes = array_merge(

$this->getClassesFromDir('classes/'),

$this->getClassesFromDir('controllers/'),

$this->getClassesFromDir('Adapter/'),

$this->getClassesFromDir('Core/')

);

 

if ($this->_include_override_path)

$classes = array_merge(

$classes,

$this->getClassesFromDir('override/classes/', defined('_PS_HOST_MODE_')),

$this->getClassesFromDir('override/controllers/', defined('_PS_HOST_MODE_'))

);

 

ksort($classes);

$content = '<?php return '.var_export($classes, true).'; ?>';

 

// Write classes index on disc to cache it

$filename = $this->normalizeDirectory(_PS_ROOT_DIR_).PrestaShopAutoload::INDEX_FILE;

$filename_tmp = tempnam(dirname($filename), basename($filename.'.'));

if ($filename_tmp !== false && file_put_contents($filename_tmp, $content) !== false)

{

if (!@rename($filename_tmp, $filename))

unlink($filename_tmp);

else

@chmod($filename, 0666);

}

// $filename_tmp couldn't be written. $filename should be there anyway (even if outdated), no need to die.

else

Tools::error_log('Cannot write temporary file '.$filename_tmp);          <<===== line 163

$this->index = $classes;

}

 

 

 

RESOLVED: line 163 should have had // at the beginning as it's a comment. Unsure why when I downloaded it, it came like that but atlas it's fixed.

Edited August 3, 2015 by mclachlan.m (see edit history)