Downloading and Installing PHP 7.3 for Windows

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∟Downloading and Installing PHP 7.3 for Windows

This section provides a tutorial example on how to download and install the PHP engine 7.0 on a Windows system.

1. Go to windows.php.net/download/ and download the ""VC15 x64 Thread Safe (2018-Dec-06 04:31:24)" binary version for Windows. You will get a file called "php-7.3.0-Win32-VC15-x64" of 21,846,474 bytes.

2. Unzip "php-7.3.0-Win32-VC15-x64" to \php folder.

3. Open a command window, and try the following commands:

herong> \php\php -v

4. If see an error message saying: "The program can't start because VCRUNTIME150.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.", you need to install "Visual Studio 2015 x86".

Go to "Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015" page at microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145.
Click the "Download" button.
Save the download file "vc_redist.x86.exe" to desktop.
Double-click on "vc_redist.x86.exe" to run it.
Follow instruction to finish installation.

5. Open a command window, and try the following commands again:

herong> \php\php -v

PHP 7.3.0 (cli) (built: Dec  6 2018 01:54:19)
   (ZTS MSVC15 (Visual C++ 2017) x64)
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