Can PHP be installed on a local machine?

Question

For Web-dev, can the PHP Processor be installed on a regular Windows XP machine, such that viewing PHP files through a browser executes the PHP script? (NOT Windows Server 2003)

I even downloaded PHP but it appears they want it installed on a server.

Any other ways to quickly preview and run PHP on a local machine WITHOUT uploading the file to server? (Dreamweaver can process the static HTML within PHP files..)

Answer 1

I suggest:

http://www.wampserver.com/en/

or

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

These are easy-install packages of apache+php+mysql for windows.