Common Php Scripts for Web Hosting Accounts

Contributed by Deb Powers

Common Php Scripts for Web Hosting Accounts

Many web hosting companies that include PHP support offer a wealth of resources to take advantage of the capability. You can find web hosting accounts that include pre-installed discussion forums, chat rooms, guest books, content management systems, mailing list and link managers, catalog systems, web site builders, blogs -- the list of PHP scripts that are offered as free perks on web hosting accounts is almost as long as the list of web applications available on the web. But how good can they be if they're free?

Free PHP Scripts that You Can Get with Web Hosting

Surprisingly - or not, considering that the internet was originally based on the idea of free access to information - a lot of the PHP scripts that web hosting services include with your account free of charge are comparable in quality with commercial software. This is in part because of the availability of PHP code as open source development that encourages developers the world over to work together on improving and writing code based on it.

It's possible to put together a powerful, dynamic ecommerce or community web site using nothing but php applications provided free by your web hosting service.

PHP Scripts for content management and communication are offered by many web hosting companies.

Among the most popular php applications available are content management, publishing and forums software packages. The most common include:

PHPBB

PHPBB is a full-featured community based discussion forum. It allows your visitors to sign up for an account at your web site, and post messages to a threaded BBS system. The modules that you can add to a PHPbb setup include chat, private messaging, user mail, photo albums, member profiles and personalized icons. It relies on an SQL database, most often MySQL. PHPbb can often be installed on your web site with just a click of a button from your control panel.

Mambo

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