Setting up Symfony2 with PHPStorm 7.1.3 not working

Question

I am trying to setup Symfony2 with PHPStorm 7.1.3 using these instructions but I am running into an error when i execute php app/console server:run .

The error I see is

[InvalidArgumentException]
  There are no commands defined in the "server" namespace.

This is what my development machine has

WAMP: 2.5
PHP : 5.5.12
OS  : Windows 7

So after getting this error I went to google to do some search and saw many people who had similar problem were using PHP 5.3 and the command line was built for PHP5.4 on wards. I then installed a new version of WAMP which came with PHP 5.5.12 assuming and hoping the error to go away and let me move on to development but then I got the same error again. Now something tells me may be I did not configure something right so I went to see the PHP settings and all seems fine to me.

I am not sure what else to do to get it to work, I will really appreciate if anyone can guide me in setting up Symfony2 with PHPStorm.

UPDATE:

I ran a command php -v to double the php version and it says PHP 5.3.13

Answer 1

You are clearly using Terminal and not Command Line Tools (CLT). The manual you are referring to was made for older version where terminal was not yet available and it refers to CLT (which you are NOT using).

Since you are using Terminal, make sure that your system-wide PHP is actually v5.5. You can verify this by executing php -v command.

Terminal and "Command Line Tool Support" plugin are two different things. First is the same as your real console/terminal (eg cmd.exe on Windows) .. while second is some custom emulator (don't know better word/term) which can use PHP Interpreter from PhpStorm settings if configured accordingly (as per manual).

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If you want to use Command Line Tools:

It is located at Tools | Run Command... Tools | Run Command... .

Make sure that you have created php alias (as per that manual) so it refers to currently select PHP Interpreter from IDE settings. Otherwise php command may fail. Aliases can be configured at Settings | Command Line Tool Support Settings | Command Line Tool Support .

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If you want to use Terminal:

You have 2 choices here:

1. Use FULL path to correct php.exe instead of just php
2. Make php v5.5 default system-wide. For this you have to:
   • Alter your PATH environment variable ( My Computer | Right click | Properties | Advanced System Settings | Advanced | Environment variables... ) and place folder where correct PHP 5.5 is located in front of the list
   • Restart IDE (most likely will be required) so it picks up these changes to environment variables.