Downloading and Installing PHP

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∟Downloading and Installing PHP

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

Here is what I did to download and install PHP 7:

1. Go to http://windows.php.net/download/ and download the "VC14 x86 Thread Safe (2016-Jan-06 23:30:05)" binary version for Windows. You will get a file called "php-7.0.2-Win32-VC14-x86.zip" of 21,846,474 bytes.

2. Unzip "php-7.0.2-Win32-VC14-x86.zip" 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 VCRUNTIME140.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.
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 7.0.2 (cli) (built: Jan  6 2016 13:05:11) ( ZTS )
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