LunarPages PHP Web Hosting Reviews
PHP the dynamic HyperText preprocessor is free open-source programming language, superb at creating dynamic websites and services (thought it can be used to create desktop applications). Its code can be directly embedded into HTML files or any other files (binary not supported), and the preprocessor will execute every code between <?php ?> tags of the file. This is also configurable via the master php.ini file. PHP 5 introduced many OOP (Object Oriented Programming) features, which made it more attractive to developers. It is very powerful with lots of functions to ease the development, yet simpler than it’s competitors: Perl, Python, ASP and others. But it’s popular mostly because of the scripts that are created with PHP: Worpdress (the most popular blogging tool), Joomla – Powerful Content Management System (CMS), Drupal (CMS), PHP BB (a forum/bulleting board software) and many others. Web sites like facebook, wikipedia, google also use PHP to dynamically create web pages. As of April 2007 more than 20 million websites use it (source php.net/usage.php). There is large community of programmers, users and testers, making it PHP the most popular web scripting language in the world. Lunarpages are great PHP hosting provider (this is wordpress blog powered by php and mysql), and they support custom PHP.ini if you need to customize specific settings that are required by some scripts.