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Symfony development with XAMPP on Windows

This is how I set up my windows laptop for development with Apache/MySQL/PHP/Symfony (XAMPP with Symfony).

1. Download XAMPP Installer package.
2. Install XAMPP - this is really just a case of next -> next -> okay.
3. Since I'm not only using my laptop for development I chose not to start any services except for XAMPP when windows starts.
4. Start (from XAMPP Control Panel) Apache and MySQL (and whatever other services you need).
5. Add PHP to your PATH.
   1. Right-click "This Computer", choose properties.
   2. Advanced tab -> Systam variables (not sure, my system is in Swedish )
   3. Add C:\xampp\php;C:\xampp\mysql\bin (if installed in default location) to the PATH variable.
6. Upgrade Pear - pear upgrade pear
7. Find Symfony - pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com
8. Install Symfony - pear install symfony/symfony
9. Done! Start playing around...