Free PHP Hosting

WordPress needs quality hosting and there are many hosting providers you can choose from and most of them meet all WordPress requirements.If you want to try a free web hosting plan with a reliable host check up Awardspace.com, they offer free php hosting and free automatic WordPress installer. To run your WordPress properly you`ll need a newer PHP version, at least 5.2.4. You also have to install a MySQL database version 5.0 or greater. The recommended server is Apache.

If you`re making your first steps in creating websites or you`ve just started your personal blog, you are probably looking for a simple and flexible software for creating web pages. One of the most popular open-source content management systems is WordPress. It is perfect for small websites or blogs. WordPress uses PHP commands to pull information from the MySQL database. The framing tags of the PHP script are <?php and ?>. Between them is placed the command, which is addressed to the database, to require the data WordPress needs.  You should learn the basic syntax rules for PHP or  your code won`t work properly. Be carefull when you write the tags and always leave space before the closing tag and after the opening one.

PHP can be used for modifying the WordPress theme, which you can find on the Dashboard >  Aappearance > Editor. The editor shows you the whole code, on which your theme is built. Be very careful if you decide to make any corrections, especially if you don`t know HTML and PHP syntax very well. Instead of removing parts of the code, you`d better use extra tags that cancel the commands. Such tags for PHP are /* and */.

Of course, PHP code can be used for modifying your posts and pages. While you`re editing your text you just have to switch to the HTML document to add the code. With PHP many additional functions for your website can be activated. You can get unique WordPress functions from the functions.php. file, which can be found in the theme folder, with all theme files. That file runs like a plugin in the theme and you can manipulate many of the basic WordPress features with it.