This tutorial applies to installations on a local computer with Windows 11, which comes with Internet Information Services (IIS). The tutorial does not use the Web Platform Installer (WebPI) as it was retired by Microsoft on December 31, 2022. Skip the tutorial and use XAMPP if you prefer to deploy PHP on an Apache environment. Installing PHP Get the latest PHP x64 Thread Safe ZIP archive with PHP binaries from https://windows.php.net/download . If you plan to move finished php scripts to a web hosting provider, be sure that the provider supports the version of PHP that you want to download. Create a folder (directory) named php at a location of your own choosing. Go to your user Downloads folder and unzip PHP to the php folder. For instance if you created the folder in the c: drive, unzip PHP to the c:\php folder. Installing IIS IIS provides a full environmental package for creating and testing Internet tools and documents.…