Possible to test with older PHP versions?

[PeterPan]

I'm in the process of setting up xampp on a 32 bit windows box (win32-7.2.12-0-VC15). My question is whether I will be able to use this package to test code with multiple versions of PHP (such as 5.4, 5.6, or 7), or will i need separate installs to do that?

I'm installing XAMPP doing to make it easier to test code without having to upload it to my paid hosting just to try. Most of my usage is pretty simple stuff... mail forms and a few photo display projects I'm experimenting with. But my hosting company just migrated to PHP v7 from 5.6 and there are some problems and warnings being complained about (mostly weird warning messages from Imagik and magicwand extensions filling up our error logs). So I (along with other hosting customers) have gone back to 5.6 until they work out the kinks. But this raises the question of whether I can test with multiple versions. Especially since knowing my hosting company, it will likely be a long time before all these issues are cleaned up.

[Nobbie]

viewtopic.php?f=16&t=77592

[PeterPan]

There was a link to a reply there, written in German, which I don't speak. Can anyone help me with this question in English? Thanks.

[Altrea]

Ever tried Google translate?
https://translate.google.com/translate? ... %23p232615

[Nobbie]

Or www.deepl.com

[PeterPan]

Ever tried Google translate?
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.apachefriends.org%2Ff%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ff%3D4%26t%3D67753%26p%3D232615%23p232615

Thanks. I would never have guessed that the translations would be this complete and accurate!

[Nobbie]

Try deepl.com it is even better and more natural.

[PeterPan]

Try deepl.com it is even better and more natural.

Thanks. I haven't even installed yet, but mainly just wanted to know of anything important to avoid, if I ultimately want to test my PHP code with multiple versions. For example, if you are never supposed to install multiple versions on the same machine, knowing that ahead of time would save me some headaches.