which is the environment variables route for cakephp 3?

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I recently installed a cakephp with composer to learn about framework use, and trying the bookmarks tutorial, but I get stucked in the checking your installation where you have to open the command line AKA cmd, and writing bin\cake.

It replies back: the system cannot find the path specified.

I've seen some information about how to set up the path variables but I'm guessing it's for version 2+ because apparently the cakephp 3 doesn't have a LIB folder like such: YOUR_CAKE_DIR/lib/Cake/Console/

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks best regards!

***************UPDATE**********************

well, I've finally fixed the problem, the path I used for the cakePHP 3 instalation was:

c:\xampp\htdocs\caketest\bin

so I assume that If you aren't using xampp, it should point at the end to: cakeinstallation\bin...

my problem was that I always typed bin\cake but actually all I had to do was type only:

cake

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score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 12 '15 at 11:35

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bin\cake shouldn't require any special path settings other than being in the correct directory. However, you should make sure that php-cli is on your system's PATH. Depending on how you install PHP it could be in any number of places, but if php -v doesn't output the version of PHP you installed, you'll need to find where your installer put PHP and then setup the PATH environment variable.

answered Jul 12 '15 at 11:35

Mark Story

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well, the php version I have is PHP Version 5.6.3, in fact, when I open the cake folder on the localhost to check it says that everything is fine. and I also put in the environment variables: c:\xampp\htdocs\caketest\bin\cake;C:\xampp\php\ and still it doesn't work, it says: the system cannot find the path specified. – baal Jul 12 '15 at 21:09

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 14 '15 at 11:34

With your example, AFAI remember the working directory they were executing cake binary was the parent of "bin" folder, in your case "caketest". I am talking without trying it (I dont have an environment close) you should use:

c:\xampp\htdocs\caketest> "bin/cake"

Watch the quotes. I think they are the main reason of that "the system cannot find the path specified."

I am supossing you are under windows (I saw xampp written in your post) and probably the xampp installation has already added the php folder in the PATH environment variable.

which is the environment variables route for cakephp 3?

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