How to unzip and install PHP

PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is an open source server-side scripting language used for web development. As an open source language, it is very commonly used. It can be embedded in HTML and is usually used to run in a server environment to perform tasks such as dynamically generating pages, processing form data, and creating database connections. If you want to set up a PHP environment on your own computer, decompressing and installing PHP is a common method. This article will introduce in detail how to decompress and install PHP, and provide guidance through illustrations.

1. Download the PHP compressed package

First, we need to download the PHP-related compressed package from the PHP official website. After entering the PHP official website https://www.php.net/downloads.php, you can see the download links for each version of PHP. We select the version we need to download according to our needs. Here we selected PHP 7.4.22 version, as shown in the figure below. ：

2. Decompress the PHP compressed package

After the download is completed, we need to decompress the PHP compressed package to the appropriate directory. Taking the Windows operating system as an example, we decompress the compressed package into the php-7.4.22 folder in the root directory of drive D on the local disk, as shown in the figure below:

3. Configure PHP environment variables

In order to facilitate the use of PHP language in the command line, we need to add PHP to the system environment variables. Under the Windows operating system, open the control panel, select [System and Security]->[System]->[Advanced System Settings]->[Environment Variables], find the PATH variable in the system variables, select Edit, and change The directory where php.exe is located is added to the PATH value, as shown in the following figure:

4. Test whether the PHP installation is successful

After completing the above steps, we can enter the command on the command line "php -v" to check the version number of PHP. If the version number can be output normally, it means that the PHP installation is successful, as shown in the following figure:

At this point, we have successfully installed PHP through decompression and installation, and have installed PHP successfully. Environment variables are configured and tested for further development.

Summary:

Through this tutorial, we can see that it is very simple to install PHP under Windows system. You only need to download the PHP compressed package, unzip it to the specified directory, and configure the environment variables. Of course, this is only the first step in PHP installation. If you want to use PHP for development, you need to install other related software and configurations, which will not be described here. I hope this article can help you solve PHP installation problems and be helpful to everyone!

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