php.exe is not recognized with yii migrate

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OK, not very knowledgeable with all this so need some help.

I was running a phpeasy local wamp ver 14 and then upgraded to ver 17. I migrated my web and DB from ver 14 to ver 17 and things seem to be working. However, when i try to push a yii2 migration to the db, i get an error that php.exe is not recognized as a command.

I am not sure which php.exe file it is looking for. In case it is in my wamp, the phpeasy php binary folder has two folders that were created about a minute apart when i installed the wamp- here is the path to one of them (php713vc14x86x170623205818):

C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP-Devserver-17\eds-binaries\php\php713vc14x86x170623205818, where folder php713vc14x86x170623205818 contains php.exe. or does yii’s console resources take care of this. Since i did the initial install of yii via composer to the ver14 wamp, i am assuming that i lost something when i manually moved the web application to the web root of the ver 17 wamp. so, what do i need to do to so that yii migrate can find the php.exe file?

thanks

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sorry for the duplication- is received an error when i tried to send this post and thought it did not send, so i cleaned up what i had and resent it (the second more recent posting).

thanks

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ok, just a little more info

if i just run the php.exe file in the wamp, it can’t find any of the dll files

php warning: php startup: unable to load dynamic library ‘C:\php\ext\php_xsl.dll’ – the specified module could not be found.

…etc.

hope this triggers something with someone.

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It sounds like windows can’t find php.exe, and the yii batch file just prepends ‘php.exe’ to the call to the yii file. A couple of things to look at:

When you upgraded from ver14 to ver17 it looks like the server directory changed. Try running php.exe with a fully qualified name "C:\Program Files…818\php.exe" yii migrate.

If that works, then check your system PATH variable for the old directory and replace it with the new one. The upgrade/install may not have done that for ver17.