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Phalcon Installation

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Phalcon Installation

We need to install WAMP/MAMP/LAMP/XAMP according to your operating system. Below the installation is based on WAMP (Windows Apache MySQL PHP).

We install the following prerequisite:

  1. Phalcon
  2. Developer tools

Installing Phalcon

Step1: Download Phalcon from https://phalconphp.com/en/download for windows.

Download Phalcon dll file for Windows.

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Step 2: Unzip the folder in C:wampbinphpphp5.5.12ext i.e. in extension folder of php.

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Step3: Edit the php.ini file which is located at C:wampbinphpphp5.5.12php.ini with notepad or other similar editor.

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Step 4: Restart WAMP server and we can see the Phalcon extension added.

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Installing Developer tools

Step 1: Download developer tools from https://github.com/phalcon/phalcon-devtools of correct version. Extract in C: drive which looks like C:phalcon-devtools-master.

Version info in WAMP

Check by running WAMP server then click on phpinfo().

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Step 2: Set environment variables for PHP and Phalcon developer tools.

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Step3: Open cmd and type command “phalcon”.

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Step 4: Create project demo using command.

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Edit: We edit the server config file

  1. Open apache’s configuration file in text editor. The configuration files location at {wamp_dir}/apache/conf/httpd.conf.
  2. Search for the following string: #LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so and uncomment it (remove the ‘#’ sign).
  3. Now search for another string AllowOverride None and replace it by AllowOverride All.
  4. Finally save the changes and restart your wamp server.

Run– To check the successful installation of project we run project file located under directory file:///C:/wamp/www/demo/index.html and run on localhost.

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