Installing Phalcon Developer Tools 1.3.1 in Ubuntu 13.10 / 14.04

Installing developer tools requires slightly more effort.

Download phalcon-developer-tools package here: 

         https://github.com/phalcon/phalcon-devtools 

Extract it to some convenient path.

Via git : 

        git clone git://github.com/phalcon/phalcon-devtools.git 

Install and create a phalcon symlink:

       cd phalcon-devtools

       sudo ./phalcon.sh

Create a symbolink link to the phalcon.php script, replace this with the right path:

      alias phalcon="/home/sherwinrobles/phalcon-devtools/phalcon.php"

Remember to restart the console to reload the environment variables. Let’s try it out by listing available commands. 

       phalcon commands

Gives me this error:

     PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20121212/phalcon.so' - /usr/lib/php5/20121212/phalcon.so: undefined symbol: php_pdo_get_dbh_ce in Unknown on line 0

ERROR: Phalcon extension isn't installed, follow these instructions to install it: http://docs.phalconphp.com/en/latest/reference/install.html

Solution:

Instead of php.ini it looks for phalcon extension in /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/ & /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/ folder.

You need to load PDO first before Phalcon.

The ini file that loads phalcon should be prefixed to a number higher than the one PDO is. So in my system I have:

          /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/50-phalcon.ini 
         /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/50-phalcon.ini 

Create each and paste this: extension=phalcon.so 

Find loaded php.ini with these commands. 

           sudo php -i | grep 'Configuration File'                
           Configuration File (php.ini) Path => /etc/php5/cli               
           Loaded Configuration File => /etc/php5/cli/php.ini

Remove the line "extension = phalcon.so" if you previously add this from the main php.ini file

Congratulations you now have Phalcon tools installed!