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:
- Phalcon
- Developer tools
Installing Phalcon
Step1: Download Phalcon from https://phalconphp.com/en/download for windows.
Download Phalcon dll file for Windows.
Step 2: Unzip the folder in C:wampbinphpphp5.5.12ext i.e. in extension folder of php.
Step3: Edit the php.ini file which is located at C:wampbinphpphp5.5.12php.ini with notepad or other similar editor.
Step 4: Restart WAMP server and we can see the Phalcon extension added.
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().
Step 2: Set environment variables for PHP and Phalcon developer tools.
Step3: Open cmd and type command “phalcon”.
Step 4: Create project demo using command.
Edit: We edit the server config file
- Open apache’s configuration file in text editor. The configuration files location at {wamp_dir}/apache/conf/httpd.conf.
- Search for the following string: #LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so and uncomment it (remove the ‘#’ sign).
- Now search for another string AllowOverride None and replace it by AllowOverride All.
- 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.
