What is PHP?
PHP (acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a free scripting language mainly used for producing dynamic Web pages via HTTP – HyperText Transfer Protocol or simply internet surfing, but can also function as any interpreted language locally, by running programs command line. PHP since version 5 features offers full object model. Due to its rich library, sometimes is referred to as PHP platform rathar than just language. PHP is used primarily as a scripting language on the server side, which means that it is the server (the machine that hosts the Web page in question) will interpret the PHP code and generate code (consisting generally of ‘XHTML or HTML, CSS, JavaScript and sometimes) which may be interpreted by a web browser. PHP can also generate other formats in connection with the Web, like WML, SVG, PDF, or bitmap images such as JPEG, GIF or PNG. That is why PHP THE web programming language is the most powerful and most popular web scripting language. It is required by popular web scripts: WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Mambo, phpbb, vbulletin, mybb and many more in order for them to run. PHP with some database engine (MySQL mostly) is the back end of todays many websites including this one (WordPress powered). Most popular sites that use PHP are Facebook, Wikipedia, milions of wordpress blogs.
HostGator PHP Review
Host Gator have the latest version (PHP5 at the time of writing this review) installed on their web servers. PHP is very fast on Hostgator and it comes with many features (libraries that extend the functionality) e.g zip for managing zip archives (extract, create, list and more). You will be able to run everything from blogs like this one(wordpress), bulleting boards – forums (phpbb, vbulleting, mybb), content management systems like Joomla, Drupal and more with blazing speeds. There is even support for custom php.ini files to further customize settings, like for examle turn off or on register globals.