Basic Question: How to view your PHP files, without uploading?

[Ceox]

Hey everyone!
I have a very simple question about PHP, which you can see already in the topic; I wonder how you can view your PHP files on your computer without having to upload them to a web server, which supports PHP. I Googled some software to view PHP, but didn't find any. What would be a good and free solution?

- Ceox

[TheRave]

To view the files on your own computer you need to set up a local server on your computer.

For windows there are a couple of complete bundled options:
- WAMP
- XAMPP

I myself use and prefer XAMPP. They are both good though. They come with apache (webserver), MySQL (database(s)) and php (scripting) as standard. They also have mail servers, ftp servers and other useful options.

[Ceox]

Ok! Thanks for bothering to answer!

[TheRave]

That's ok, we've all got to start somewhere ^^