symfony3 Getting started with symfony3 3. Windows Systems

Example

You must add php to your path environment variable. Follow theses steps :

Windows 7 :

• Right-click on a My Computer icon
• Click Properties
• Click Advanced system settings from the left nav
• Click Advanced tab
• Click Environment Variables button
• In the System Variables section, select Path (case-insensitive) and click Edit button
• Add a semi-colon (;) to the end of the string, then add the full file system path of your PHP installation (e.g. C:\Program Files\PHP)
• Keep clicking OK etc until all dialog boxes have disappeared
• Close your command prompt and open it again
• Sorted

Windows 8 & 10

• In Search, search for and then select: System (Control Panel)
• Click the Advanced system settings link.
• Click Environment Variables.
• In the section System Variables, find the PATH environment variable and select it. Click Edit. If the PATH environment variable does not exist, click New.
• Add the full file system path of your PHP installation (e.g. C:\Program Files\PHP)

After this, open your command console and execute the following command:

c:\> php -r "readfile('https://symfony.com/installer');" > symfony

Then, move the downloaded symfony file to your project's directory and execute it as follows:

c:\> move symfony c:\projects
c:\projects\> php symfony