In our company I’ve become the unofficial “Framework Tester Guy”, because I always seem to be the one working on the latest version of our internal framework. Recently I decided to try out an established framework to develop a little personal project of mine. I picked cakephp for several reason.

I run Windows 7 on my home system and I couldn’t find a nice quick guide on setting up the cakephp console on windows 7 in a text format. Sure, there are screencasts, but sometimes having nice step by step text instructions is just easier, especially when your internet connection is acting up a bit and you can’t stream effectively (like when you stay in South Africa). So here are some quick and easy steps to set up the cakephp console in windows 7 on a WAMP server.

Step 1.
Click on the Start Menu button. Right Click on Computer and select Properties.

Step 2.
Select Advanced System Settings from the side menu.

Step 3.
Select Environmental Variables and under System Variables scroll down until you find the “path” entry.

Step 4.
Click on edit and add the following to the end of the path.

;c:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.0\;c:\wamp\www\cake\console\;

Replace “c:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.0\” with the location of your server’s php files and replace “c:\wamp\www\cake\console\” with the location of the cake\console folder of your current project.

Now when you open up the windows console [start menu, run "cmd.exe"], you should be able to type cake into the command line and enjoy baking your apps just like everyone else.

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