How to setup Symfony 2 in XAMPP | Beginners guide

Hi all,

Today, I will be showing you how to setup Symfony 2 in XAMPP environment. This is a real beginners guide, so this post is for beginners, and will be useful to fellas who are new to PHP frameworks, setting up frameworks in XAMPP.

  1. First thing you need to do is download the latest version of Symfony 2 from the Symfony 2 website. (The most latest version for this moment is 2.7) And also you need to download the most recent version of XAMPP from their website. (The most recent version is 2.4.17). Then install the XAMPP using default settings.
  2. I hope you have a working version of XAMPP and downloaded Symfony 2 zip file. Create a folder called ‘Symfony‘ inside this path ‘C:\xampp\htdocs‘.  (If you haven’t installed under C:\ or installed in different directory, make sure you use that path). Now what you have to do is, extract Symfony 2 zip file in ‘C:\xampp\htdocs\symfony‘ location. Continue reading
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