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For using console commands for PHP ans MySQL in a comfortable way, some settings in the environment variables should be done. This document describes how to do this. 

==Reviewing paths==
You need to know in which paths of your Windows installation the following files are located: 

* php.exe
* mysql.exe

This document uses these paths as '''an example''':

* C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\php-5.6.30\<span style="color: #999999;">php.exe</span>
* C:\Program Files\MariaDB 10.1\bin\<span style="color: #999999;">mysql.exe</span>

==Entering environmental variables==
# Press the key combination "Windows+R" to start the input request 
# Start the program "SystemPropertiesAdvanced.exe"
# Click at "Environment Variables"<br /><br />[[File:Setup:Setup_windows_environment_variables_01.jpg|center|177x200px]]
# Open the variable "Path" at "System variables" with a double click<br /><br />[[File:Setup:Setup_windows_environment_variables_02.jpg|center|177x200px]]
# With Windows 2012: In the line "Value of Variables", add the paths to php.exe and mysql.exe, separated by semicolon, directly at the beginning of the line. Regarding the path example, this would be '''"C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\php-5.6.30\;C:\Program Files\MariaDB 10.1\bin\;"'''<br /><br />[[File:Setup:Setup_windows_environment_variables_03.jpg|center|177x200px]]
# Windows 2016 and above: <span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">Add two new entries with their respective pathnames</span></span><br /><br />[[File:Setup:Setup_windows_environment_variables_04.jpg|center|177x200px]]
# Close all windows by clicking "OK"
# Restart the command line<br /><br />

<span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">Now you should be able to call up the commands "php" and "mysql" without problems in the command line.</span></span>

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