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HOW TO RUN PHP?!?!!!?!!!

I have windows 10 and sublime text 3. I don’t have anything else. Please tell me exactly what to do so that I can run php with html forms.

12th Apr 2018, 1:13 AM
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Download xampp https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html Install and open it. Start apache server. Click the folder icon on the right and then go to htdocs folder which is your web root. It’s the place where you store all your files. Default path for it is C:/xampp/htdocs Create index.php file on the htdocs folder. You can access it with localhost. http://localhost
12th Apr 2018, 1:40 AM
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Download it, Open the .exe file and install it.
12th Apr 2018, 1:57 AM
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If you want to use mysql database with php, just start the mysql server from the control panel.
12th Apr 2018, 2:36 AM
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Yes you can run it offline. No viruses. The apache server is the one that runs php. Xampp is just usefull because it’s allready configured and it comes with mysql.
12th Apr 2018, 1:46 AM
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Here is a direct link https://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/latest/download?source=files You create it in the htdocs file. htdocs/index.php If the sublime text doesn’t open it you need right click the file and select open with sublime text
12th Apr 2018, 1:52 AM
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There should be a folder icon on the right. Click that and then you should see the htdocs some where there
12th Apr 2018, 2:06 AM
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and you can view it in localhost. http://localhost And don’t forget to start your apache server. Click the start button in the xampp control panel.
12th Apr 2018, 2:02 AM
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There you can see all the server that xamp has. Click the start button next to apache server
12th Apr 2018, 2:05 AM
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yes. Everything
12th Apr 2018, 2:16 AM
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Did you use .php extension on your file?
12th Apr 2018, 2:20 AM
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Can you post the url?
12th Apr 2018, 2:20 AM
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type localhost in your browser
12th Apr 2018, 2:22 AM
Toni Isotalo
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Oh yeah. It’s just welcome page. You can delete that. If you go to the htdocs folder you can see that the xampp page that you see right now is in there. Delete all files in htdocs and you get rid of it.
12th Apr 2018, 2:25 AM
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Can you post the url address from your browser?
12th Apr 2018, 2:30 AM
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yes
12th Apr 2018, 2:00 AM
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You can uncheck not to install right?
12th Apr 2018, 2:03 AM
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Yes.
12th Apr 2018, 2:04 AM
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No ;). The files inside.
12th Apr 2018, 2:26 AM
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Yes. When the htdocs folder ks empty you can start creating your own.
12th Apr 2018, 2:27 AM
Toni Isotalo
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Then after that do I just make s index.php file in sublime 3 and save it to the htdocs?
12th Apr 2018, 2:00 AM
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