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CakePHP setup

CakePHP setup

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CakePHP setup

- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to discuss how to install CakePHP using Composer. Fortunately, since they've moved in to Composer like a lot of the other frameworks, it makes it pretty straight forward process. One thing to note is that you should already have the international extension installed and configured with you PHP. We discuss how to do this in the Mac and Windows setup in the first section of this course. Once you're ready to install, you're going to want to navigate to wherever it is you want to install CakePHP inside your hard drive. If you're on Windows, you might want to do this in the sub-directory of your C drive. I'm going to to ahead and go in to my documents directory. I'm going to create a directory called capephp and I'm going to navigate into that directory. Since I'm using the PHP server for my development, I don't need to worry about navigating anywhere else. One thing to note is if you're using MAMP or WAMP or XAMPP, you might want to put it…

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