Not getting it to work.

[Arbu]

OK so I've downloaded XAMPP v 3.2.2. I've put my php file, along with a number of other files that it references, in the folder C:\xampp\htdocs and successfully started Apache and My SQL through the XAMPP control panel. I then double click on my php file to open it in Chrome. That's my understanding of what I have to do.

But it doesn't work. I just see the code listed in the browser. What am I doing wrong?

[Altrea]

I then double click on my php file to open it in Chrome.

That's wrong. You need to request the file the same way as it would be placed on any webserver on earth.
Therefore you have a special domain name pointing to your very own computer: localhost.
So your URL should start with http://localhost/

[Arbu]

Oh yes I forgot about that, apologies.

So it now works with a simple php file. But I have another file which I have copied over from my website, along with a related sql database. And for this I get the error:

"There was a problem

Unable to connect to MySQL"

I have SQL running in the control panel. Any thoughts as to what I might be doing wrong?

[Altrea]

Wrong credentials?

[Nobbie]

Any thoughts as to what I might be doing wrong?

Which Database do you try to connect in your PHP script? Which UserID do you apply for the connect and which password do you apply? And finally which server do you connect?