I have Installed Zend Server 8.0.1 with PHP 5.6.4 on Windows 8.1. I have added 'E:\Program Files (x86)\Zend\ZendServer\bin' to PATH variable, which contains PHP binaries.
I have Installed Composer Globally. I am trying to create a Laravel project using composer command 'composer create-project laravel/laravel'. After a while PHP CLI stops working. Screen shot is below. screen shot of PHP settings given below. I tried it few times but same error. Has anybody faced same problem. Unfortunately I don't have tool to analyze Dump.
It is a bug with Zend Server 8.x, PHP 5.6 and composer running on Windows that Zend is aware of (see http://forums.zend.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&p=245953).
Using older version of composer.phar works for me. Get the composer.phar from the Zend Skeleton Application (https://github.com/zendframework/ZendSkeletonApplication) and try with it.