Choosing a PHP Web Host

[Nile Hadwards]

A little information about PHP would be helpful. It is a very popular server side programming language that can be embedded into HTML. Its popularity has been aided by the following features:

*It is free.
*Easy to learn and use.
*It is a fully object oriented language.
*It is platform independent.
*Its speed on the Linux server makes it very effective in building complex, and large web applications.
*It allows advanced programming and is very easy to integrate with web pages.
*PHP also integrates very nicely with MYSQL.

[Jerin]

The main feastures of PHP are follows;

1. Standard CGI, FastCGI and Apache module support
2. Access Logging
3. Access Control
4,. PostgresSQL Support
5.RFC-1867 File Upload Support
6. HTTP-based authentication control
7. Variables, Arrays, Associative Arrays
8. Conditionals, While Loops
9. Extended Regular Expressions
10. Raw HTTP Header Control
11. On-the-fly GIF image creation
12 ISP "Safe Mode" support