<p>Download a binary build of the PHP version that you wish to use from the PHP website, and extract the contents of the compressed archive file to your XAMPP installation directory (usually, <em>C:\xampp</em>). Ensure that you give it a different directory name to avoid overwriting the existing PHP version. For example, in this tutorial, we’ll call the new directory <em>C:\xampp\php5-6-0</em>.</p>
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