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Nearly two or three times every week I get someone asking me to teach them how to program, many of these are from an online game I help out with called Injustice. Its amazing really that people that there is some hidden secret to coding and that I can just send you a link or say one or two lines and they will be able to code! I’m telling you people, its not magic!!
So instead of repeating myself over and over I’m shoving this article in here! Mainly because of this, secondly because I believe people can learn PHP a little easier than some of the websites make it. So on with the show!

Ok, so to actually learn PHP the best way to do it will be to install Xampp.
You can download Xampp here.
Xampp will install Apache [Webserver] MySQL [Database] and PHP among other things, but that is all we will be using! Once you download the file, run it, its a graphical installer for windows. For linux users, I’m sure you can work out how to install it! Once installed start the Apache and MySQL services, the control panel will be in front of you, all you have to do is tick the boxes! Yep thats it, your done installing. Now, to put files into your “webserver” you will go into C:/Xamp/ht_docs/ if you installed it in the default directory. So lets create a folder called project. And put a file called index.php in there. In the index.php file just put the word “Test”. Then all you have to do is go to, http://localhost/project/index.php and if you did everything right you should be looking at a webpage that just says “Test”. There you have it! You are ready to learn PHP!