

I went forward but I am told that you can go backwards to older versions if needed.XAMPP is the most popular PHP development environment. you need to make four changes for each version as yours may be different. Under the XAMPP control panel, open nfig file and add the following to the bottom of the file. Unzip the PHP versions into the correct folder. I was told that the "debug" version was not the correct one.

Make sure you get the regular zip file as I cannot vouch for the others. Go to php.net and download the Windows version of that PHP file. Your base install version (7.4.25 for me) will be under xampp\php). Next under you XAMPP create two new folders, in my case xampp/php8 (8.0.10 is the actual one) and xampp/php81v (8.1.1 is the actual version). I have 7.4.25 as my installed base to xampp\ If you are interested, please keep reading.įirst off, install the version of XAMPP you want to use as a base install. I am also trying to get Xdebug to work with all three versions as well. I am sure that there are some folks here on the forum that can explain this better. I have read through some of the documentation but I am still sort of lost. PLEASE do not ask me to explain what is in the files. I guess I was being annoying as they wanted me to go learn all about servers and server configurations! I am not a server guy and all I can show you is what I have working. Some input from the Apache forum was critical to get this to work. Some use virtual servers and that is an option. I found all kinds of different instructions all over the net. While it was not easy to get the information, I finally got it to work. This is not a question! I recently had been trying to get XAMPP as my local host to use different versions of PHP for testing.
