Do you need to know about the requirements of hosting a php script, website or simple file ?

In these current days every webhosting company has this php script hosting feature included, but let me explain how it works.

PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is a web based server-side programming language. The php server is an engine installed on different servers like Unix, Linux, FreeBSD or Microsoft Windows. To be able to execute php websites, pages, scripts on a server, that specific “remote machine” must have the php interpretor installed.

The PHP engine is Open Source, which makes it very popular and accessible to everyone. On the other side, the “client side” one, you need to tell to the engine that he needs to parse that php page. How? Usually having .php extension rather than .html and using the <?php opening and ending ?> tags (or in shorter version like <? ?>).

Also, in most of the cases on the website hosting server you will find a MySQL engine (an OpenSource database engine), used for building along with PHP dynamic database driven websites (for example : classifieds sites, discussion boards – forums -, content management systems, etc.).

That’s all you need to know about php hosting required technology!