[austintxous]

Hi. I'm trying to get YiiFramework setup on a XAMPP local host. I've gone through all the steps up to the point of running yiic webapp. When I try to do this, it fails with the error "Could not open input file: c:\xampp\htdocs\YiiFramework\yiic I have checked to make sure that yiic exists there and it does. I've also checked to make sure I have admin privileges. I do. I'm just using the Windows Command Prompt to run the batch. What now?

[shailesh]

Step-1 )Download Yii Framework Zip and Extract and Rename with YII
setp2 ) Put Folder in side c:\xampp\htdocs\YII

Then Follow Steps

http://www.yiiframew...start.first-app

[Da:Sourcerer]

Try yiic.bat instead.

[seb]

See also this topic.

[austintxous]

I already tried all of these things and searched the forum to see if anybody else has encountered this BEFORE I opened this topic.

None of these ideas have helped yet.
If I could understand what was going on inside the yiic batch file, maybe I could unravel it.
I must have missed a step on the setup:
But, this just doesn't make any sense to me. Here's what's in the file:

@setlocal

set YII_PATH=%~dp0

if "%PHP_COMMAND%" == "" set PHP_COMMAND=php.exe

"%PHP_COMMAND%" "%YII_PATH%yiic" %*

@endlocal

What is YII_PATH being set to with "%~dp0"
The condition "%PHP_COMMAND%" is probably returning false, so the command doesn't execute. Why?

[austintxous]

I found the answer to the last question on Stack Overflow:

"The variable %0 in a batch script is set to the name of the executing batch file. The ~dp special syntax between the % and the 0 basically says to expand the variable %0 to show the drive letter and path, which gives you the current directory containing the batch file!"

So, basically, all this batch file does is to start php.exe and then run yiic.

I'm wondering....maybe the batch file doesn't know that it should run yiic.php instead of yiic.bat...

AHA!

I changed the yii.bat file to specify what php is supposed to run, like this:

%PHP_COMMAND%" "%YII_PATH%yiic.php" %

IT WORKED! I have YII!

YIIPEEE!