Setup on Windows Problem

Greetings, awesome project! Have been wanting to learn more about electron, especially with PHP.

I have installed using GIT and can start (npm start) but showing “PHP server not started. Retrying…”

Running Windows 10. Here is my config:

const PHPServer = require('php-server-manager');

const server = new PHPServer({
    port: 5555,
	directory: __dirname,
    directives: {
		display_errors: 0,
        expose_php: 0
    }
});

server.run();

Sure it is something I do not understand about configuring main.js

Could you give me example of what you have working for Windows?

Thanks!

[juppwerner]

Hi,

I had the same issue.

I have installed the xampp package, and I had C:\xampp\php in my PATH environment variable. So the phpinfo() here always showed the PHP installed with xampp.

I removed C:\xampp\php from my PATH in order to see the PHP info which came with the ELECTRON-4-PHP git package. Then it showed

PHP server not started. Retrying...

It works when you change main.js to add the path to the bundled PHP like this:

const server = new PHPServer({
    php: "php\\php.exe",  // <==== ADDED
    port: 5555,
    directory: __dirname,
    directives: {
        display_errors: 1,
        expose_php: 1
    }
});

Perhaps this should just be added to the README file?

Regards Joachim

[aj-techsoul]

@juppwerner I have updated the Windows branch also. Kindly check in the Branch. https://github.com/AJ-TechSoul/ELECTRON-4-PHP/tree/Electron-4-PHP-Windows