YII installation on xampp OS windows

Hello developers,

You have to follow following number of steps to create and run Yii application with XAMPP on windows machine.

1 : Install XAMPP. Click here to download XAMPP.

2 : Download Yii from community site. Rename to Yii and place it to xampp\htdocs folder.

3 : Set Environment variable for yii framework and php. (Right click on My computer and select properties -> Advance tab  -> Click on Environment variable button).

      Edit Path variable and add this two path.
            1) For Yii , C:\xampp\htdocs\yii\framework
            2) For PHP, C:\xampp\php

4 : Also edit xampp\htdocs\yii\framework\yii.bat file to enable yiic command to create yii application from command prompt(cmd).

        if "%PHP_COMMAND%" == "" set PHP_COMMAND=php.exe to  if "%PHP_COMMAND%" == "" set PHP_COMMAND=C:\xampp\php\php.exe

5 : Go the command prompt. Click on run and then type cmd. Command Prompt will open. Then change directory upto your  yii framework  folder.

      1 : cd C:\xampp\htdocs\yii\framework
      2 : yiic webapp yourapplicationname

Using all this step, you can create your Yii application on windows machine with XAMPP server.

Thanks,
Karmraj Zala.