title: Installing symfony on windows with XAMPP
body: <p>I'm a LINux user and recently i moved to windows OS and there i want to start all my projects which i created on linux environment. So that i started install symfony on windows with XAMPP server.. </p>
  
  <p>Upgrade pear:
  pear upgrade pear <br/>
  Install phing:
  pear install -a <a href="http://phing.info/pear/phing-current.tgz" rel="nofollow">http://phing.info/pear/phing-current.tgz</a> --alldeps <br/>
  Install symfony:
  pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com <br/>
  pear install symfony/symfony<br/></p>
  
  <p>path variable = ;g:\xampp\php\PEAR\symfony;g:\xampp\mysql\bin;g:\xampp\php;g:\xampp\php\PEAR<br/></p>
  
  <p>These are the steps i followed. and after all on commmand prompt when i type command for symfony project creation , it says "  'symfony' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file." can anyone help me!!!</p>