Difference between XAMPP and WAMP??

Question

I'm installing the xampp , and run all servers ( mysql , apache , and ftd ) so when open the (textedit) and write the code and save it as name.php , then open it with firefox or google chrome it doesn't work , its showing me the codes. What the problem here ?

Answer 1

Both are essentially same as both provide APACHE-MYSQL-PHP. The only difference is WAMP is windows specific where as XAMPP is mulch-platform.