Developing with PHP on your local machine

2 steps required

A. Run a PHP interpreter and a local server (serving the local machine)

Run in command line (in the directory of your php files)

php -S localhost:8000

This run a server for the local machine on the port 8000, and interpret PHP files.

(the local machine is always called: localhost)

B. Request the file from your browser/client on localhost

- Load your browser at the address http://localhost:8000/