How to let my php code work in the browser?

1

I just started learning php and thought it would be just like html,but when I created a file called test.php and wrote the following code inside:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <title>php</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php 

echo "<p>hello</p>";

?>
</body>
</html>

then save the file to desktop.Its icon wasn’t google chrome(my default browser) like .html files but something looked like a sheet of paper,so I’ve no idea how to open it in the browser to see the results like I do with .html files.
Is there something wrong with my file name?Or is there anything I should download first?Or anything else?

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PHP runs on a server, a program on the server takes that PHP file and turns it into HTML, browsers cannot read PHP files.

You need a web server that can run PHP, and normally you’d want a database as well, XAMMP lets you setup a full environment to develop in

3

thanks DanCouper!It works now!

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