These steps will guide you through the process of installing Phalcon Developer Tools for OS/X.
Prerequisites
The Phalcon PHP extension is required to run Phalcon Tools. If you haven’t installed it yet, please see the Installation section for instructions.
Download
You can download a cross platform package containing the developer tools from the Download section. You can also clone it from Github.
Open the terminal application:

Copy & Paste the commands below in your terminal:
1 | git clone git: //github .com /phalcon/phalcon-devtools .git |
Then enter the folder where the tools were cloned and execute ”. ./phalcon.sh”, (don’t forget the dot at beginning of the command):
1 2 3 | cd phalcon-devtools/ . . /phalcon .sh |
In the terminal window, type the following commands to create a symbolic link to the phalcon.php script:
1 2 3 | ln -s ~ /phalcon-tools/phalcon .php ~ /phalcon-tools/phalcon chmod +x ~ /phalcon-tools/phalcon |
Type the command “phalcon” and you will see something like this:

Congratulations you now have Phalcon tools installed!
Please login to continue.