But the true "Verified" seal is not just visual—it’s functional. You create a simple info.php file in C:\xampp\htdocs with <?php phpinfo(); ?> . You load localhost/info.php . You see a full table of PHP configuration, loaded modules, environment variables, and—crucially—. That is verification.

| Test | Result | |------|--------| | Local WordPress (100 posts) | ~350 ms TTFB (Apache + MariaDB) | | PHP 8.2 script execution | Faster than PHP 7.4 (20–30% gain) | | Concurrent connections (100 req) | Stable up to ~80 concurrent | | MySQL query (10k rows) | ~180 ms avg |