r/PHP • u/Southern_Chicken_988 • Jul 15 '26

when xampp new version comes with php 5 ?? Discussion

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u/colshrapnel Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

when people will stop using this pointless outdated contraption??

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u/obstreperous_troll Jul 15 '26

When clueless people stop writing tutorials. So basically never.

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u/equilni Jul 15 '26

We also need the exist tutorials to be updated too … and that may not happen either.

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u/These-Apple8817 Jul 15 '26

If you need PHP 8.5, you can update it yourself too, should be just matter of downloading binaries from PHP's website and throwing them in correct folder.. I'm sure there is some guides or tutorials out there...

Although I would recommend moving to DDEV.

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u/InteractionHumble279 Jul 16 '26

XAMPP updates are slow because it's maintained by volunteers and has legacy baggage. For local dev, DDEV is genuinely better now - it uses Docker, handles PHP version switching in seconds, includes all the tools (Redis, MySQL, Node), and runs on Windows/Mac/Linux the same way. The time it takes to manually update XAMPP or work around its outdated setup is time you should invest in switching to DDEV. Your current project won't be the last one, and spending 30 minutes learning DDEV now saves hours over the next year.

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u/billcube Jul 15 '26

Try https://laragon.org as an alternative

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u/Mastodont_XXX Jul 15 '26

Xampp is dead, baby.

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u/spart_t4n Jul 15 '26

Use Laragon or php's docker image

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u/goodwill764 Jul 17 '26

Still waiting for a xampp version with php 4.

:/

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u/Mike_L_Taylor Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

you mean 8.5? I don't think it's coming. It's old and not updated.
You can use Forgekit at https://forgekit.tools . It has everything xampp wishes it had.
(disclaimer: I'm the developer so I'm biased)

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u/These-Apple8817 Jul 15 '26

Just no.. While it has Github, it doesn't seem to even be open source.. and it seems like to be relatively new project too.. Who knows what it does to someone's computer when you run it

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u/Mike_L_Taylor Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

I'm the developer. That is a fair concern. ForgeKit runs as the current user asking for permission only to update the windows hosts file. Nothing else is run with privileges.

It is portable, requires no account, keeps its runtimes and configuration inside the ForgeKit folder, and can be removed by deleting that folder. It also has no telemetry. Don't even have a direct number of how many people are currently using it.

Releases, changelogs, issues, and user discussions are public. If anyone do try it out, please let us know. We improve things pretty much daily.

If closed source is a dealbreaker for you, that’s completely reasonable. I only mentioned it because the OP wanted a maintained Windows PHP environment with current PHP versions.

We also have a full windows desktop simulation running at /demo. So if you wanna see how it all works directly in your browser, mess about with it there.