Very new to design, but I need help installing PHP and MySQL?

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I don't know anything about PHP or MySQL. I tried installing both on my computer, but Dreamweaver keeps asking me for my server information.

All I've done so far is download PHP from www.php.net and extract everything, and I downloaded MySQL and extracted that, plus did the install and now I have the command line where I can enter the password.

So far, I have no web host, so I don't have a server. I'm guessing I need a server to use PHP, but when I started looking into PHP I thought the point was that you don't need a server, and that's why people used PHP (i.e. for their "contact me" pages or customer login pages.) That's all I want to do, but with my limited knowledge, I can't seem to figure it out.

I also looked at the tutorials on PHP net but the first tutorial states, "We assume you have PHP on your computer." Well, that doesn't help if I can;t figure out what I'm doing in the first place.
Downloaded apache XAMPP.

Saved the PHP files there (there is even a sample file there.

But nothing happens. I guess I have to go look at some books or something. I thought I could figure it out with the internet. Looks like that won't be the case.
 
Download and Install XAMPP

then save your php files in the "HTDOCS" folder located on your xampp installation directory.

You can then access your php files in your browser like this "http://localhost/YOUR_PHP_FILE_HERE.php"

Note: if you have skype running, please exit the program before you install xampp or you won't be able to access your php files
 
xampp is a server that runs php files, unlike html files that can run on any browsers php needs a server, that's what xampp is for, but to understand php that's a whole new ball game you will need to read up on that, coz html and php is like english and latin they work together but they're two very different languages. Good luck and enjoy, php is very powerful so if you learn it you are in for the big time.

cheers,

hope this helps,

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