PHP? How to handle it?

I have WinXp. I want to run PHP on my machine for testing purpose, what software I need. how to test it w/o uploading to my hosting server on my PC.

You'll need webserver-software, and PHP...
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/00/44/index4a.html
http://www.php.net/install.windows

If you can't figure it out, there are easier options like http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Softwa...allation_Kits/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpdev5

php development in a bundle

These are the ones I used when I set it up on my machine:
PHP (http://php.net)
Apache (http://apache.org)
and if you want a database
MySQL (http://mysql.com)

Once you setup and configure these properly you'll have it running on your machine. Configuring doesn't take much time so you should have it up in no time. If you need any help with any of the above I'll be glad to help you.