You can solo using the actual application without CMD prompt.
Eventually it will be pool based, but wanted to see some excited from new comers

Here is the steps
First, go to the same folder labeled PHCoin Windows Wallet 1.0
Edit your .conf file (coin.conf or PHCoin.conf) and include these nodes:

addnode=54.194.99.126
addnode=54.85.98.213
addnode=54.86.63.3
addnode=54.84.32.66
addnode=54.86.6.250

Next, inside the software, click on Help -> Debug Window
In the command box, type in setgenerate true -1

-1 = full course cores
-2 = medium range
-3 = third range
-4 = last range

type help in the command box to see a list of commands you can access.

getmininginfo is a popular one to people like to use.

I just ran it the command and here is what it looks like

03:56:56  getmininginfo

{
"blocks" : 9902,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 0.00097655,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"hashespersec" : 3360,
"networkhashps" : 7512214,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}