Phalcon Developer Tools on Mac OS X¶

Prerequisites¶

The Phalcon PHP extension is required to run Phalcon Tools. If you haven’t installed it yet, please see the Installation section for instructions.

Download¶

You can download a cross platform package containing the developer tools from the Download section. You can also clone it from Github.

Open the terminal application:

Copy & Paste the commands below in your terminal:

wget -q --no-check-certificate -O phalcon-tools.zip http://github.com/phalcon/phalcon-devtools/zipball/master
unzip -q phalcon-tools.zip
mv phalcon-phalcon-devtools-* phalcon-tools

Check where the phalcon-tools directory was installed using a pwd command in your terminal:

On the Mac platform, you need to configure your user PATH to include Phalcon tools. Edit your .profile and append the Phalcon tools path to the environment variable PATH:

Insert these two lines at the end of the file:

export PATH=$PATH:/Users/scott/phalcon-tools
export PTOOLSPATH=/Users/scott/phalcon-tools

The .profile should look like this:

Save your changes and close the editor. In the terminal window, type the following commands to create a symbolic link to the phalcon.sh script:

ln -s ~/phalcon-tools/phalcon.sh ~/phalcon-tools/phalcon
chmod +x ~/phalcon-tools/phalcon

Type the command “phalcon” and you will see something like this:

Congratulations you now have Phalcon tools installed!