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I've just installed XAMPP on an XP machine.

I get an error message in red across the top of the XAMPP home page:
"Warning: Variable passed to each() is not an array or object in D:\XAMPP\htdocs\xampp\head.php on line 27"

PHPInfo() works from the XAMPP home page menu.

BUT if I choose phpMyAdmin from the home page menu (to http://localhost/phpmyadmin/) apache crashes with the following error reported in the windows event log:
Faulting application apache.exe, version 2.2.11.0, faulting module php5ts.dll, version 5.2.8.8, fault address 0x0000abae.

The only changes I've made from the installation are
- to my.ini in mysql and
- having read the forum I modified D:\XAMPP\apache\conf\extra\httpd-xampp.conf, changing localhost to 127.0.0.1 in 2 places, to allow me to load the security page at http://localhost/security/index.php.

Help!
Cheers.

OK I've sorted it. It was caused by an improperly uninstalled previous version of PHP.

The reason for the initial error was apache not recognising the <? tag because PHP was picking up the old PHP.ini file with "short_open_tag = Off".

I guess the crash was due to clash of incompatible PHP versions. I cleaned up the old install, reinstalled XAMPP and all seems happy...