How to change xampp php version to 8.4.
Download https://downloads.php.net/~windows/releases/archives/php-8.4.13-Win32-vs17-x64.zip and unzip (https://www.php.net/downloads.php).
Just overwrite files in /xampp/php directory.
Unzip to php directory on disk C.
Go to https-xampp.conf and change all paths from /xampp/php to /php.
Run command, press ALT + R and type sysdm.cpl and click OK. See in advanced tab environment variables and add in Path.
# Change C:/xampp/php to C:/php or remove from environment variables and add new line: C:/phpDownload https://curl.se/ca/cacert.pem and place to C:/php directory and add path to this file in php.ini curl.cainfo and opessl.cafile for Http client in php, laravel.
Copy from php.ini-development and add in php.ini file path to extensions directory (if you want to place php in different location).
[PHP] # Php extension directory extension_dir="./ext" # Settings post_max_size = 500M upload_max_filesize = 100M # Unhash extensions extension=bz2 extension=curl extension=ftp extension=fileinfo extension=gd extension=gettext extension=intl extension=mbstring extension=exif extension=openssl extension=pdo_mysql extension=pdo_sqlite extension=sockets extension=sqlite3 extension=zip zend_extension=opcache [Session] session.cookie_secure = Off session.cookie_httponly = On session.cookie_lifetime = 86400 session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440 [curl] curl.cainfo = "C:\php\cacert.pem" [openssl] openssl.cafile="C:\php\cacert.pem"php -v php -mC:\xampp\htdocs\index.php
<?php phpinfo(); die(); ?> { "php.validate.executablePath": "C:/php/php.exe" }