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What is XAMPP?

XAMPP is a very easy to install Apache Distribution for Linux, Solaris, Windows and Mac OS X. The package includes the Apache web server, MySQL, PHP, Perl, a FTP server and phpMyAdmin.

So, XAMPP is all that you will need to start learning PHP! It is very easy to install. The beauty is everything is contained with a folder (eg: C:\XAMPP) and it does not change your Windows registry.

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What are the components that come with XAMPP?

  1. Apache - the most popular OpenSource WebServer. To put it simply, Apache helps us to browse our PHP pages using the http:// prefix.
  2. MySQL - the most popular RDBMS Server. MySQL helps us to place our database tables to be access from PHP.
  3. PHP - the most popular scripting language. We will write our web applications using PHP language.
  4. FTP - Fitle transfer utility. You can ignore this for now unless you are placing XAMPP on a on a networked remote PC without a direct file/drive sharing mapping. In such a case FTP can be used to upload and download your files.
  5.  phpMyAdmin - this is a very popular and important utility to create MySQL databases, tables and everything  associated with it.

How to Install XAMPP?

Please follow the steps listed at http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html

Please note: you may need to disable IIS or change the port usage from 80 to 81 or 8080 by editing the httpd.conf file

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