PHP Web Site Hosting

PHP web site hosting utilizes and fully supports the PHP programming language.





PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page. Both the internet and PHP have been through several changes since then and now PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. PHP is an open source web development language which means that PHP is completely free. PHP scripts are written into HTML and are executed on the server side (the server runs the scripts and sends the results straight to your computer). PHP is a very hearty language and has a wide variety of applications and is commonly used in building dynamic websites. PHP web site hosting is also exceptionally popular so finding components are very easy and many such components are free.


What are Dynamic Pages?

There are basically two kinds of web pages on the internet, static pages and dynamic pages. Static pages display information that never changes. Dynamic pages are web pages that can change its content automatically. Programming languages, such as JavaScript, change pages automatically as the page loads in the user's browser window. This is called "client-side" scripting. Other programming languages such as PHP or ASP, automatically change the page before it loads in the browser. This is called server-side.

Dynamic pages allow the web designer to build a site that can change based on different programming commands. The commands are potent and they give you more control over your web pages and website. With the use of a database, dynamic pages can even enable you to build a very large website without having to write out the design, layout, and data for each individual page. A database driven website provides an unlimited range of options to the developer, but a dynamic page does not need to load information from a database to be dynamic.


Should I Use PHP?

PHP was tailored from Perl and C. If you have any practice with these programming languages then picking up PHP should be fairly easy. If you comprehend Java, then should have no problem learning PHP quickly.

If you have no skill in programming, PHP is a great way to start. A lot of components for PHP web site hosting are available for free. PHP Nuke is a very popular portal software package and can be used to rapidly build a website using templates. PHP Nuke is a free application and includes all source code, so while you learn the language you can have a website in place. Most PHP web site hosting include a ton of PHP add-ons that you can use to build a complete website (such as forums, picture galleries, banners, etc) and most of these include full source code so you can mess with them as you learn.

PHP is a very popular language so finding answers to your programming questions or finding tutorials on building various types of web pages are accessible free on the net.

PHP website hosting does not allow you to detect and clean harmful cross-site scripting (an abuse in which a hacker can use your pages to output false data).

The PHP languages carries more than 3,000 commands, most of which over lap each other and add complications as well as unneeded code. The php.ini file has many settings and sometimes one PHP website may work fine on one computer ends up not working at all on another computer. Some PHP extensions are not compatible with some web server software. This may lead to crashes.

If your PHP web site hosting company understands the limitations of PHP, they can help you solve the bulk of the problems listed above. If you cannot set the global php.ini file, your web host will have to change it or move your site to a server that is compatible with your web site. The website host should also notify you of PHP extensions that are not compatible with their services.

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