Xamp

[Stormraven]

I was talking to alex geek the other day (awsome guy), because i was interested in PHP and want to learn, he told me to download xamp so i could test codes offline, but i just can't figure out how to use the damn thing, i would ask alex but he doesnt use it, he just reccommended it to me, so i was wondering if any on here uses Xamp could you get hold of me by PM please? because i am so interested in php, would like to make my own hosting website

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post, if it isn't im very sorry

[welshstew]

try the FAQ's of the official site

Sorry never used it either

[Marc]

XAMPP is great! I use it for testing everything before uploading.

[c010depunkk]

Feel free to post questions. I use xampp the whole time.

[Stormraven]

Feel free to post questions? i have about a billiion of them, where do i put the codes and how do i test them is one

[Marc]

You put the files with the .php/.html in the 'htdocs' folder. Eg... In the htdocs folder i create another folder called 'test'. In the browser i would put in //localhost/test.

Hope that makes sense!

[Stormraven]

Thing is ive search on google but found nothing, im not really looking for an FAQ, im looking for what each option does. there are so many options, and there isnt really a manual with it so im really stuck.

Stormraven

[c010depunkk]

ok, once you have extracted xampp to a drive root (C:/ or D./) then open the xampp folder and start the xampp-control.exe. Click the START button to the right of xampp. You'll see that once the php server has been started, the button text changes to STOP. That is how you start and stop the apache server.

In the xampp directory is a "htdocs" folder. Put any .php files in that folder or sub-folders. Now open a browser and enter http://localhost/ to access your server. If you have a file stored in xampp/htdocs/test/test.php then you can access it in your browser under http://localhost/test/test.php.

Hope that makes some sense.... Keep the questions coming!

[Stormraven]

OMG thank you for that, that is exactly what i wanted.

Thing is, there are for little start buttons? Filezilla? something like that, but one of the four when i click on start, it wont start, .

I have installed the program onto the desktop because it told me not to do do it in program files.

[Marc]

I normally just start apache and MySql.

[Stormraven]

Is that all that needs to be working at the time? If so, what do the other ones do?

[Marc]

Yes, I dont really know what the others do but Apache and MySql seems to work fine for me.

[c010depunkk]

I also only ever start Apache and MySql. The Filezilla module start a ftp server for localhost so that you can ftp files to your localhost (not necessary unless you're accessing the server from some other computer). I'm not sure what other modules you have, but if you don't know what they're for or what they do, you can leave them off...