XAMPP in Manjaro

[obelix1502]

Good evening,

I'm really a beginner with this software.
My goal is not to try a website under development, I'm just trying to learn PHP.
When I look at the tutorials on Youtube, everything looks really easy. They create .php documents, place them in a htdocs folder on their desktop or in their /home and with one click, they open their favorite browser which displays the .php page.

Personally, I installed the software and launched it with the terminal :

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sudo /opt/lampp/lampp satart

who shows me:

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Starting XAMPP for Linux 7.4.13-0...
XAMPP: Starting Apache...already running.
XAMPP: Starting MySQL...already running.
XAMPP: Starting ProFTPD...already running.

When I launch the command :

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sudo /opt/lampp/manager-linux-x64.run

the mistletoe window is displayed. But if I click on "Go to Application", the terminal returns the mistletoe window is displayed. But if I click on "Go to Application" the terminal returns "the menu, applications, Faqs, How To Guides, PHPInfo, phpMyAdmin and Welcome to XAMPP plus all descriptions.
I found the htdocs folder in /opt/lampp which contains several files including a file named index.php.
So I tried this file : 127.0.0.1/opt/lampp/htdocs/index.php in the browser bar which sends me back to http://localhost/dashboard/ with the usual page.
So that's where I am. I don't understand much about it.
I looked on the Net, tried to follow your faq, but no order is validated by Manjaro.
Can someone help me?
Thank you very much.

[Altrea]

Hi,

It has nothing to do with Manjaro.

You need to create a php file in htdocs or a subfolder of it.Let's assume it is /opt/lampp/htdocs/projectxy/file12.php
You can then request that file by URL http://locahost/projectxy/file12.php
I colored the fie path and the url so maybe you can see the pattern better. http://localhost/ is mapped to /opt/lampp/htdocs/. This is the DocumentRoot from which Apache is allowed to deliver ressources. Everything that comes after that DocumentRoot can reflect the folder and file structure inside that DocumentRoot.

This should help you to start with your programming experience.