question about the latest version and apache

[EvilNick]

pardon my ignorance here and forgive me if this IS in some writing I missed but Ive recently started setting up the server and installation for our new company intranet. I unfortunately am not building the site. Offered but the company would rather spend money when not needed.
Upon receiving the wordpress export of the constructed site (yes this company paid a pretty decent sum for a wordpress site) and trying to import it I received an error stating that my php was version 5 while the site was constructed using 7. I checked and I am def running the latest version of XAMMP and it has 7.25 in the PHPmyAdmin specs but when I went into the PHP ini it did say it was PHP5.6.*

Is there a discrepancy in the versions? I of course checked to late and already reverted my HypV installation to a pre imported stage but before importing again I wanted to be sure there wasnt
a) a bug or error in the latest install
b) something I might need to change or activate
c) bad installer on the site

Im more than likely thinking its something stupid like on line in a config I might need to change a 5 to a 7 but I want to be sure. When I completed their import I could not log in using their credentials for the WP backend so I was curious if a PHP mismatch might be able to cause this.

All of this could have been avoided had they just let me change a theme on our current intranet, lol, but man do people love spending other peoples money!

Thanks guys

[Altrea]

XAMPP 7.2.5 included PHP 7.2.5 (verified 2 minutes ago with the installer version).
My php.ini does not say anything about a PHP version used, not 7.2.5 and not 5.6.

Maybe you have installed an alternative PHP version on your system which is included in your Windows PATH variable.

[EvilNick]

I double check the ini and was reading wrong. It says "as of version"

; 1. SAPI module specific location.
; 2. The PHPRC environment variable. (As of PHP 5.2.0)
; 3. A number of predefined registry keys on Windows (As of PHP 5.2.0)

I cant understand why my word press importer is saying its version 5. I vauguley remember having a similar problem with my last attempt at using XAMMP here and our network scanner said it was an older version than it was (came to me last night) and I had to alter some header in a file to hide or change the version #.

Does this sound familiar to anyone.

I know the only version of PHP is from XAMMP as this was a clean server install.

Thanks


edit:
I found the edit to hide the PHP version