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Manual WAMP setup for Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP

There many ways to setup a PHP development environment for Windows, WSL, Docker, Virtual Machine, WAMP and similar pre-packaged installers, etc, all of them works fine. I prefer somewhat old school approach to setup everything manually. Here is how

Preparation

I will setup this environment for 64 bit Windows. If you are on 32 bit you have to download the appropriate packages for that. I also setup everything for a local User, if you prefer to make it global for everyone you can do that as well (e.g install everything in C:\Wamp).

Create a directory somewhere called Wamp (or whatever). I will put mine at %OneDrive%\Program\Wamp. That way I can share my development environment between machines. (My %OneDrive%\Program directory consist of various Windows programs and tools I share between my machines, thus it makes sense to create a subdirectory there).

	#!/usr/bin/env php
	<?php

	/**
	* Git cleanup script: deletes merged branches locally (and optionally on remote).
	*
	* Usage:
	* php git-clean-merged.php [--with-remote] [--help]
	*
	* Options:

	function execute(string $cmd, ?string $stdin = null): array
	{
	$proc = proc_open($cmd, [0 => ['pipe', 'r'], 1 => ['pipe', 'w'], 2 => ['pipe', 'w']], $pipes);
	if ($stdin !== null) {
	fwrite($pipes[0], $stdin);
	}
	fclose($pipes[0]);
	$stdout = stream_get_contents($pipes[1]);
	fclose($pipes[1]);
	$stderr = stream_get_contents($pipes[2]);

	<?php
	declare(strict_types=1);

	// https://stackoverflow.com/a/1653826
	// updated for PHP 8

	function bcceil(string $number): string
	{
	if (str_contains($number, '.')) {
	if (preg_match("~\.[0]+$~", $number)) {

	<?php
	declare(strict_types=1);

	#[Attribute(Attribute::TARGET_FUNCTION \| Attribute::TARGET_METHOD \| Attribute::IS_REPEATABLE)]
	final class Option
	{
	public function __construct(
	public string\|null $short = null,
	public string\|null $long = null,
	public bool $required = false,

	<?php
	declare(strict_types=1);

	function asciiTable(array $rows, array $columns, ?callable $mapper = null): string
	{
	if ($mapper === null) {
	$mapper = function (string $column, $value) {
	return $value;
	};
	}

	@echo off
	if "%PHP%"=="" (
	echo %%PHP%% is NOT defined
	exit /b
	)
	%PHP% %*

	<?php

	function fork($program, ...$args): int
	{
	if (strtoupper(php_uname('s')) === 'WINDOWS NT') {
	$cmd = [
	'powershell.exe',
	'-Command',
	'$proc',
	'=',

	#!/usr/bin/env php
	<?php
	declare(strict_types=1);

	const PHPS = 'phps';
	const COMMENT = '#';
	const BANG = '!';

	if (empty($argv[1])) {
	throw new RuntimeException("Missing php file");