Upgrade PHP on XAMPP 1.8.3 windows 7 installation
php, xampp
Solution
- Download the package from following url: http://windows.php.net/download/. Make sure the “Thread Safe” zip file with around 20MB was downloaded.
- Extract and rename the folder to “php”.
- Rename the existing “php” folder to something and place the new bundle with folder name “php”.
- Then restart the apache server. It will simply load the new PHP version.
Problem
I have XAMPP 1.8.3 installed on my windows 7 machine. Which include PHP 5.5.6. I want to upgrade the PHP to 5.6 version. Is it possible to do the upgrade while keeping the XAMPP bundle other module as it is (Apache, MySQL). Can any one suggest a way to do upgrade on windows 7.