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PHP Hosting
What is PHP?
PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page. Both the Internet and PHP have been through several changes since then, therefore PHP now stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. PHP is an open source Web development language. Open source in this instance means that PHP is completely free.
PHP scripts (commands) are written into HTML (the basic language of the Web) and are executed on the server side (the server runs the scripts and sends the results straight to your computer). PHP is a very robust language and has a wide variety of applications and is commonly used in building dynamic (more on this later) websites. PHP is also extremely popular so finding components (forum software, shopping carts, ad banner rotators, etc) is very easy and many such components are free.
PHP was adapted from Perl and C. If you have any experience with these programming languages then picking up PHP should be fairly easy. If you understand Java, then should have no problem learning PHP version 5 quickly. Also, if you have experience using ActionScript from Flash then you should be able to learn PHP fairly rapidly.
If you have no experience in programming, PHP is a great way to start. A lot of components for PHP are available for free. PHP Nuke is a very popular portal software package and can be used to rapidly build a Web site using templates. PHP Nuke is a free application and includes all source code, so while you learn the language you can have a Web site in place. Most PHP Web Hosts include a ton of PHP add-ons that you can use to build a full Web site (such as forums, picture galleries, banner rotations, portal software, add password protections, etc) and most of these include full source code so you can tinker with them as you learn. more.....
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