Help on php

Question

I just finished the php course on sololearn. Tried to run a .php file on notepad++ but it couldn't work. Can someone help. What do I need to do for it to work.This is my first experience with php

Answer 1

do you have a web server installed? u need one like apache or nginx

Answer 2

nginx lel

Answer 3

nope.Guess that was the people err

Answer 4

I know of want server. which do you guys recommend

Answer 5

This article help me a lot, also the one about LAMP which is linked.
https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/XAMPP/
well fu** it's German, so just Google XAMPP