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

Step4
Open the browser and got to
http://localhost/yii/requirements/

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

Creating web app from cmd windows(comand promtp)

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

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