How to set up Magento on XAMPP with php 5.3 +

Magento still doesn’t support PHP 5.3 (current default PHP env on XAMPP ), therefore this is what I had to do:

First be sure that you have the required setting:

http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/general/installing_on_windows_with_xampp_and_wamp

Change in file /lib/Varien/Object.php on line ~ 484

  public function ___toString(array $arrAttributes = array(), $valueSeparator=',')

To this (change ___toString to __invoke

 public function __invoke(array $arrAttributes = array(), $valueSeparator=',')

In file /app/code/core/Mage/Core/Controller/Request/Http.php on line ~ 274

  $host = split(':', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);

to

$host = explode(':', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);

And all split() deprecated warnings change it with explode()

If you can’t login try this:

-Go to app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Session/Abstract/Varien.php file within your magento directory.

-Find the code,

session_set_cookie_params(
           $this->getCookie()->getLifetime(),
           $this->getCookie()->getPath(),
           $this->getCookie()->getDomain(),
           $this->getCookie()->isSecure(),
           $this->getCookie()->getHttponly()
       );

-Replace above code by,

session_set_cookie_params(
           $this->getCookie()->getLifetime(),
           $this->getCookie()->getPath()
           //$this->getCookie()->getDomain(),
           //$this->getCookie()->isSecure(),
           //$this->getCookie()->getHttponly()
       );

-Save it and try to login to your magento admin panel.
It would work.

If you want to add the sample data:
Download the “media” and SQL dump from here:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/download/noregister

• Normally web install
• delete the database, and create new one
• copy the sample_media_files to magento’s media folder
• import the sample_sql to your database