I use two machines for Dev, my Mac for my primary work, emails and some small projects when I'm on the move but primarily use RDP and run XAMPP and Vis Studio on my PC. I have XAMPP installed on my Mac using a bundled XAMPP installer.
This PC has XAMPP, MySQL, IIS and MSSQL installed and runs my Wordpress sites perfectly, custom plugins work great however I recently created a custom project from scrach on my MAC and when I wanted to move it to my dev machine (for source control etc) I found that XAMPP wouldn't run the site as a "PHP" site. The pages show selective portions of php code, even stranger is that I will get syntax errors when I intentionally break code on pages yet a simple "echo" won't work as expected. Bear in mind that my Wordpress installs run perfectly at the same time as this project gives issues.
Frustrated, I uploaded my project to my hosting provider to see how the project would render and to my dismay, the project ran perfectly, my hosting provider runs linux machines so I wonder if there's a possibility something in my code isn't working on the windows XAMPP distribution.
How do I start trying to find a solution to this?