Install Symfony 2.8 in Windows 8 PC, Xampp

Question

Well i know it is not depends on Operating System when it is about to install any PHP framework. But what my issue is i am trying to install it by symfony.phar, the symfony installer provided by symfony itself. I have downloaded symfony in my XAMPP at

C:\xaamp\htdocs\symfony\symfony.phar

Now i am following onscreen instruction given by symfony.phar and i execute following command at C:\xampp\htdocs\symfony:

symfony.phar new blog

Commad works but it pop up Window screen to choose app for .phar file which you can check in attached screenshot. Can anyone help me with that?

Answer 1

You have to execute it with PHP :

php symfony.phar new blog

If the PHP is not in your environment PATH, use the full path of the binary :

c:/path/to/php.exe symfony.phar new blog