Introduction In the ever-evolving landscape of web development, version control is not just a luxury—it is a necessity. While PHP has moved on to version 8.x with Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation and numerous performance improvements, a significant portion of legacy applications, enterprise systems, and academic projects still rely on older versions. One such version is PHP 7.1.3 .
LoadModule php7_module "C:/xampp-7.1.3/php/php7apache2_4.dll" AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php PHPIniDir "C:/xampp-7.1.3/php" Then restart Apache. While XAMPP is excellent, here are other stacks if you need PHP 7.1.3: xampp php 7.1.3
date.timezone = "America/New_York" XAMPP 7.1.3 bundles phpMyAdmin 4.7.0, which throws deprecation warnings for create_function() . Suppress them by editing config.inc.php : LoadModule php7_module "C:/xampp-7
; OpenSSL extension=php_openssl.dll
; Maximum execution time for legacy scripts max_execution_time = 180 ; Memory limit (many old scripts are memory-hungry) memory_limit = 256M Deprecated Mcrypt (removed in PHP 7.2
; Deprecated Mcrypt (removed in PHP 7.2, but 7.1.3 still has it) extension=php_mcrypt.dll ; Windows ; extension=mcrypt.so ; Linux