Simplified concept of chat application for php beginners

• Xampp  
• Code Editor (I'm using VSCode)  

• XAMPP is completely free and easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP, and Perl. First, download XAMP from https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html. In the first page, select the components you want to install.

  

• Select the installation directory so that all the components that you choose will be installed in this directory.

  

• XAMPP also allows you to easily install PHP based applications. Bitnami module provides the easiest way to install WordPress, Drupal or Joomla among others on top of your XAMP after the installation you will see the control panel.

• Once you are done with Xampp installation, let’s move ahead to setting up the Database and see how to run a PHP file in xampp server.

• After completion of the installation, you can use the XAMPP Control Panel to start/ stop all servers. Start Mysql and Apache servers.

  

• Copy downloaded or fork HELLO file to htdocs (C:/Program Files/XAMPP/htdocs)

In order to get the dashboard for localhost: search http://localhost in any browser.

• Now navigate to phpMyadmin in the menu-bar or search http://localhost/phpmyadmin in your browser

1. Click New to create new Database (Database name = chat then navigate to the dropdown tab and select collation)
2. click the button create
3. Go to the import tab in your Chat database and click IMPORT
4. upload the chat_info file contained in your sql database folder
5. click Go to complete the import.

• Now you're done with Database setup

• In order to get your application in localhost: search http://localhost/chat in the browser.

• Happy coding and chatting