start with PHP

Before start PHP programming we need to install :

• Web server (Apache)
• PHP
• MySQL (for graphical user interface also need to install phpMyAdmin)

Some software can install all of above:

• WAMP(for Windows) download free from:  http://www.wampserver.com
• XAMPP(for Windows, Linux and OS X) download free from: https://www.apachefriends.org

Now  go to  “C:\wamp(or wamp64)\www\”   and for XAMPP go to “C:\xampp\htdocs\”  create a text file with notepad (in Windows OS or TextEdit in Mac or gedit in Linux) and name it test.php, copy and paste below codes in it and save the file

To run your code(any server-side codes) you can’t open it directly with your browser; to do this in any major browsers address bar  you can simply type one of these:

1. localhost/test.php
2. 127.0.0.1/test.php
3. [::1]/test.php              (using IPv6)

Then you can see in browser: PHP successfully tested on this system.