XAMPP SERVER

he acronym XAMPP refers to a set of free (open source)applications, combined with Microsoft Windows, which are commonly used in Web server environments. The XAMPP stack provides developers with the four key elements of a Web server:  an operating system, database, Web server and Web scripting software. The combined usage of these programs is called a server stack. In this stack, Microsoft Windows is the operating system (OS),Apache is the Web server, MySQL handles the database components, while PHP, Python, or PERL represents the dynamic scripting languages.
XAMPP server runs on the localhost of your machine. It will help the user to create database and perform all operations and use the functionality of database through only one software.
Serveral different versions are available for different operating systems like, WAMP for both windows, linux. LAMP for only linux.
You need to create the PHP files for your database in order to combine the Android project with your database. You need to save your PHP script files in a directory named WWW for this purpose.

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