Installation

This guide walks you through installing and running a new Quantum PHP project.

Make sure your environment includes:

PHP 8.1+;
PHP extensions:
- PDO
- curl
- JSON
- simplexml
- fileinfo
- OpenSSL
- bcmath
Composer installed and accessible globally

Optional framework features may require additional extensions or packages such as redis, memcached, zip, dom, or twig/twig.

Practical note: run php -v to check your PHP version before you start. Quantum needs PHP 8.1 or newer.

Create a new project
bash
```
composer create-project quantum/project my-project
```
The current starter project runs a post-create setup sequence automatically after Composer finishes installing dependencies.
That setup currently:
- creates .env from .env.example
- generates an application key
- installs the demo Web and Api modules
- installs OpenAPI assets/routes for the Api module
- publishes DebugBar assets
- prints the installed framework version
Navigate into the project directory
bash
```
cd my-project
```
Start the development server
bash
```
php qt serve
```
The development server starts and prints its address, by default http://127.0.0.1:8000/. If port 8000 is busy, it uses the next free port. The options are described under serve.

You should now see a working Quantum demo application in the browser.

On a successful fresh install, you should also expect that:

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