Installing PHP with AppServ

To set up PHP, we'll turn our computer into a small server with a few applications. Once that's done, we can integrate PHP 5.6 and newer and start building applications and websites. We need to install something like AppServ or XAMPP; my recommendation is AppServ, and in this post I'll show how to install and configure it. Enjoy.
 

Installing AppServ

• Download AppServ: click to download 
  Downloading from that page gets PHP, MySQL and Apache at once, which makes things much easier.
   

• After it downloads, the Apache settings come first. You can leave them as they are. However, if another application on your system uses port 80, set AppServ to a port other than 80; otherwise the two clash over the port and neither works.
   

• In this step we install MySQL. The suggested username is root, so we keep it and set our root password. The important part is setting the charset to UTF-8.
   

• Press Install to finish. When you type localhost in your browser, the AppServ page should appear. If it doesn't, uninstall AppServ and repeat the same steps carefully.
   

• Go to the drive where you installed AppServ, put your applications in the www folder (or create new ones there), and you can view them on localhost.

That's all for the installation. I hope it helps :)