kenny1999 wrote:but he refused to tell me how to run the control/admin panel or provide any help.
So you should refuse to pay him, a software without installation description is quite useless.
kenny1999 wrote:the website designer told me to install and execute the project with XAMPP
, so it's supposed to be XAMPP file..
Xampp is a "Distribution" (a software collection) of different webserver tools, there is no "Xampp File". This hint does not contain any usefull information, it is quite the same as "run it under Windows" or similar.
kenny1999 wrote:Please let me know which directory should I put the project file into or how to run it.
Try to put your files to the folder c:/xampp/htdocs, it may be usefull to create your own subfolder, lets call it "myfolder", so finally your stuff is stored in c:/xampp/htdocs/myfolder and after you started Xampp, enter
http://localhost/myfolder in your browser. Please understand, that we cannot give any information to any error messages, as we have no idea, what you are doing there. If your project requires an SQL Database, you *MUST* ask for a proper installation documentation, it is impossible to assume "something" out of the blue.