Solid php. How to run a website on a local server?

Question

CMS

Guys, hello! Immediately I apologize for the naivety, ignorance and all sorts of annoying things.
I want to run a website on a local server (denver or mamp if on a mac) in order to manage its design.
But there are no more or less familiar html / css files in the structure.
As I understand it, if the site is set up on cms (in my case, it’s some kind of self-made, and not the well-known Bitrix, Joomla or WordPress), then html documents are generated automatically thanks to php templates, so they don’t exist. So you need a local server to see the changes.
Denver set up, test pages load fine.
I created a database in it, and then plugged it - there is a guide for installing common cms, but I don’t have one.
Tell me what to do? There is no index.php or index.html in the structure, only startup.php, which seems to be the starting one.
I am attaching screenshots of the content. I would be grateful if someone could chew it.

Answer 1

It is not enough to create a database with the correct name - the table structure needs to be restored there, and the test data must be saved into it. If there is no database structure, throw it out and forget it.

Answer 2

Finding html templates will not be your main problem! As grabbee already wrote , without a database, you still won’t succeed .. So there is 2 way out - either find a developer, fight off his hands for his creation and find out how to deploy his cms miracle. Or just hit on her. I honestly don't understand where you dug it up. If this is the customer's cms, then he has it on the hosting in expanded form, you need to take it from there. And if you want to indulge, take any normal cms and don't torture yourself. I don't have any more options!