Hi,

I'm tryng to install Siverstripe for the first time and am following the video tutorial. I am encountering this error when installing SilverStripe:

573 $newTable = false;
574
575 // backwards compatibility patch for pre 2.4 requireField() calls
576 $spec_orig = $spec;
577
578 if (!is_string($spec)) {
579 $spec['parts']['name'] = $field;
580 $spec_orig['parts']['name'] = $field;
581 //Convert the $spec array into a database-specific string
582 $spec = $this->$spec['type']($spec['parts'], true);
583 }
584
585 // Collations didn't come in until MySQL 4.1. Anything earlier will throw a syntax error if you try and use
586 // collations.
587 // TODO: move this to the MySQLDatabase file, or drop it altogether?
588 if (!$this->database->supportsCollations()) {

Can anyone help?

Thanks

It is complaining about line 582

Had the same issue. I am using a new install of MAMP. Changed from PHP 7 (default) to 5.6 and it solved the issue. Wish me luck on the rest.