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Get started with ZeroPHP on macOS, Linux, or Windows. No composer or npm dependencies needed.

Project Configuration

Project Name

Target Operating System

Destination Folder: ./my-projectDetected OS: linux

Download & Initialize Project

Terminal — linux

zero@php ~ % curl -L -o main.zip https://zerophp.com/get/latest.zip \

&& unzip -q main.zip \

&& rm main.zip \

&& mv Zero-main my-project \

&& cd my-project \

&& rm -rf docs todo.md readme.md .git \

&& cp .env.example .env \

&& php zero key:generate

Server Log — my-project

zero@php ~/my-project % php zero serve

Starting PHP server in default mode...

[2026-08-25 12:00:00] PHP 8.4 Development Server (http://127.0.0.1:8000) started

➜ Local: http://127.0.0.1:8000

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