Not sure if this belongs here - but don't know where else it belongs. For a while now I've run XAMPP to let me run Joomla on my system. Now it appears I've gotten a bit greedy. Just brushed up on HTML and CSS courtesy of html.net. I went to the next in the series - PHP - and it gives me three options for running it. The third is XAMPP, so thinking I'm very pleased off I go.

The first example (Hello World - real technical) doesn't quite woprk properly. The second example doesn't give me any visible result. After trying for some time, I tried the same scripts on a commercial website. Perfect. So it appears XAMPP isn't working properly under Windows. And the real problem is I have no idea what to do about it - it's always just sat there and I've never done anything to it.

So does anyone have any polite suggestions on what might get this thing working for me?

Thanks.