{"id":12,"date":"2016-07-15T05:23:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T05:23:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-12-04T23:25:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T23:25:11","slug":"running-php-at-a-windows-10-command-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karwin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/07\/15\/running-php-at-a-windows-10-command-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Running PHP at a Windows 10 Command Line"},"content":{"rendered":"

A technical writer friend of mine asked me to help her this week. She needs to run PHP scripts at the command-line on Windows 10. She installed WAMP Server<\/a> which includes PHP. I think she just needs to change the PATH so when she runs “php” in a command window, it will find the PHP interpreter.<\/p>\n

I hardly use Windows these days. But I do have a Windows PC around, so I tried installing WAMP, and then figuring out what it takes to change one’s PATH on Windows these days. Here are the steps, with screen shots.<\/p>\n

1. Open Windows Settings and click the System icon:<\/h4>\n

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2. Click the “About” link<\/h4>\n
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3. Click the “System info” link<\/h4>\n
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4. Click the “Advanced system settings” link<\/h4>\n
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5. Click the “Environment Variables…” button<\/h4>\n
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6. Select the “Path” variable and click the “Edit…” button<\/h4>\n
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7. Click the “Browse…” button<\/h4>\n
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8. Browse to the directory “C:wamp64binphpphp5.6.19” and click the “Ok” button<\/h4>\n
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9. Continue clicking the “Ok” buttons for all the windows that you opened during this exercise<\/h4>\n
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10. Open a command shell window and run “php -v” to confirm you can now use PHP via your PATH.<\/h4>\n
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Now you should be able to run PHP in the command window from any directory.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A technical writer friend of mine asked me to help her this week. She needs to run PHP scripts at the command-line on Windows 10. She installed WAMP Server which includes PHP. I think she just needs to change the PATH so when she runs “php” in a command window, it will find the PHP interpreter. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-php","category-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karwin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Step1.png?fit=768%2C933&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawgV7-c","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karwin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karwin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karwin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karwin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karwin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karwin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karwin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karwin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karwin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karwin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}