Export them as sql (or whatever, really - just remember what you chose). Simply go to each of your databases and click on the export tab at the top. I don't have enough reputation to comment yet, but, to add to ssharma's answer:Īfter you copy your htdocs folder to a safe place, just export your databases from PHPmyadmin. NOTE: there are two directories to be updated with new version of files, namely php sub-directory and apache/bin sub-directory, inside XAMPP installation.

This is necessary because by XAMPP uses Apache version 2.2 and the files with the 2 prefix are built for Apache 2.0, so you must take the files build for the newer version (which has a different plugin interface) and rename them in the filenames XAMPP expects. Now the trick: take the files which have a '_2' in their names (for example php5apache2_2.dll or php5apache2_2_filter.dll), copy them in the apachein subdirectory and remove the '_2' part, overwriting the existing files.Overwrite the contents of the directory apachein with the newer versions.Overwrite the contents of directory in the php subfolder of your XAMPP installation directory.Download the latest binary version of PHP (make sure to get the.Realizing that my answer helped couple of users, here is the edit from original link:Įdit: First of all Always backup your data. You can go through the following link as it helped me, should work for you as well.

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