{"id":17718258,"date":"2024-04-27T23:33:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T23:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/installing-php\/"},"modified":"2024-04-27T23:37:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T23:37:35","slug":"installing-php","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/installing-php\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing PHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The documentation says that if I&#8217;m using XAMPP, I should install the full version of PHP to get access to all the development tools\/libraries.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea how to do that yet, but I found the website to download PHP. XAMPP is running 8.2.12. I thought I might need to download the same version that XAMPP is running, but <a href=\"https:\/\/windows.php.net\/download#php-8.2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the website<\/a> doesn&#8217;t have that version.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Does it matter if the versions are different, or should I get 8.3.6?<\/li>\n<li>Is it going to cause problems if I have both XAMPP and the full version installed?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Edit: I noticed the website has a development package <strong>(Development package (SDK to develop PHP extensions))<\/strong>, should I just get that instead of the ZIP or Debug Pack downloads?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-17718258","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/17718258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/17718258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17718261,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/17718258\/revisions\/17718261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17718258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}