Do most of you have web hosting already and test it on your web host? Or do you test it on the local machine? I personally prefer if I'm able to test it on my local machine, so that I don't have to upload before I see the result

yesterday, I installed XAMPP, and for some reason I still couldn't test my .php file, can anybody help me with this? I tried already to go to localhost, and indeed it works. I put my test.php inside the folder that I named test/ inside xampp folder. So the structure would look like this:

I tried to go to

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is the webserver root pointing to the c:\xampp folder ?

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that's on my local machine
XAMPP home page on my local machine will come up if I would just have type localhost in the internet explorer...

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i have not used XAMPP though i have set up apache with php on it and mine worked fine once i had set the route and also the route of the php, at the moment i just upload my script to another host using FTP, all i have to do is click one button as i have set it up and it works well.

If you can type localhost and it comes up with the home page then create your test php folder in there and in your address bar type, localhost/testphp/test.php

it should work if you have set up php correctly.

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hmmm... interesting, then probably I should try again
hey, I just looked over PHP documentation, what is var_dump(); for? why does it have to be arround isset($var); ?

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var_dump is a debugging tool to output information about the variable that it references.

See PHP: var_dump - Manual

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got it, thanx
It's similar to if I debut each line of my code by printing right? but if that's the case, why don't they just use echo? can't echo also dump the output of a variable?

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echo will only output the current value of a variable

var_dump will output the type and value and in the case of an array will output all of the elements with their types and values.

extremely useful if you are debugging associative arrays from database data

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DUGG!! ~ Thanx for nice simple and straight forward description

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still doesn't work at this, please help
I don't know why, this is the error message:

I used localhost/grady/test.php as my URL

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