​​Installing Yii in xampp on Windows XP​​

Yii is a new php framework which is going to be used widely in the near future.Here i am going to guide how to install Yii framework in xampp on windows platform.


Step1

Download the frame work from ​​here​​

Step2

Unpack it and and put the folder in C:\xampp\htdocs\yii (or the path you installed xampp).

Step3

Start the Xampp control panel and start the apache server and mysql

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Step4

Open the browser and got to

​​http://localhost/yii/requirements/​​

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if you put folder correctly in htdocs you should be getting the above page


Creating web app from cmd windows(comand promtp)

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How to use the yiic command to bootstrap the creation of a new

Yii application


Step1

  1. right click "my computer"
  2. go to "system properties" under "advanced" tab, click on "environment variables"
  3. under "system variables" find for the variable named "PATH" and click on "Edit" button

in "Variable Value" append the php.exe path with a semi-colon like below
;C:\xampp\php


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if you dont do the above step correctly you will get this error "php.exe is not recognized as an internal or external command"


Step2

open cmd and enter


cd c:\xampp\htdocs\yii\framework


then enter


yiic webapp ..\newapp


you will prompted with


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 安装完成后，输入​​http://localhost/yii/newapp​​ 就可以查看这个demo网站了。


为了方便的运行Yii的命令，最好将YII framework目录加入Windows 环境变量里