I need help on how to run the Vanilla script on XAMP

Let's have it in mind that until now, I have never used XAMP.

Albeit, I have successfully installed the app and have the vanilla script in her htdocs already, but I'm getting a

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '>' in C:\Users\Cirphrank\Desktop\XAMP\htdocs\Vanilla\index.php on line 1

error

And how do I go about running live database on the local host.