installing codeigniter sparks manager on windows - php

Question

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I'm trying to install the Sparks package manager on windows by following the official instructions.
Issuing this command:
php -r "$(curl -fsSL http://getsparks.org/go-sparks)"
results in this errormessage:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':' in Command line code on line 1
If I only execute the curl command within the above line, i.e this:
curl -fsSL http://getsparks.org/go-sparks
it echoes out the php script located on the URL. So I think the problem is piping the curl output to PHP somehow fails. I've tried a couple of variants, using diffrent quotes etc but I'm at a loss.
MY SOLUTION
As DaveRandom pointed out, the instruction didn't apply to windows.
But instead of doing it the manual(normal) way, what I did was taking the output from curl, appending php script tags and executing it as a file with the php -f option.
Here is the output:
<?php
$zip = "http://getsparks.org/static/install/spark-manager-0.0.7.zip";
$loader = "http://getsparks.org/static/install/MY_Loader.php.txt";
if(!file_exists("application/core"))
{
echo "Can't find application/core. Currently this script only works with the default instance of Reactor. You may need to try a manual installation..\n";
exit;
}
echo "Pulling down spark manager from $zip ...\n";
copy($zip, "sparks.zip");
echo "Pulling down Loader class core extension from $loader ...\n";
copy($loader, "application/core/MY_Loader.php");
echo "Extracting zip package ...\n";
if(class_exists('ZipArchive'))
{
$zip = new ZipArchive;
if ($zip->open('sparks.zip') === TRUE)
{
$zip->extractTo('./tools');
$zip->close();
} else {
echo "Extraction failed .. exiting.\n";
exit;
}
} elseif(!!#`unzip`) {
`unzip sparks.zip -d ./tools`;
} else
{
echo "It seems you have no PHP zip library or `unzip` in your path. Use the manual installation.\n";
exit;
}
echo "Cleaning up ...\n";
#unlink('sparks.zip');
echo "Spark Manager has been installed successfully!\n";
echo "Try: `php tools/spark help`\n";

Answer 1

The instructions you linked do explicitly state;
In order to use this quick start option, you should be using OSX or some flavor of linux.
You need to follow the Normal Installation instructions for use on Windows.

Answer 2

You should execute the command php -r "$(curl -fsSL http://getsparks.org/go-sparks)" in your root application folder. Maybe you're executing this command at wrong folder.