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PHP.INI

PHP.ini is a file that contains settings to customize behavior of PHP interpreter or other related settings. HostMonster supports custom PHP.INI. For example register_globals can be turned on or off. Register_globals is an options that tells whether or not to register the contents of the Post, Cookie, Get and other variables be automatically registered as global variables. For example the url http://www.hostmonsterreviewme.com/?p=1 will automatically declare $p as global variable with value 1. This can be dangerous because an attacker can put anything he wants and possible bypass authentication. Some scripts like drupal require register_globals to be turned off in order to be installed. Other directives(settings, options) that are supported:

* log_errors
* error_log
* register_globals
* session.save_path
* upload_tmp_dir
* memory_limit
* upload_max_filesize
* post_max_size
* display_errors and display_startup_errors

PHP

PHP is an interpreted programming language originally designed for creating dynamic web pages. Interpretation is mainly on the server-side (server-side scripting) but can now be used from a command line interface or in creating other types of programs, including GUI applications using Qt or GTK + libraries.

PHP is a recursive acronym that means PHP Hypertext Pre-processor (initially PHP Tools, Personal Home Page Tools). It was originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994, but the main implementation of PHP is now produced by The PHP Group and serves as the de facto standard for PHP as not having a formal specification. Published under the PHP License, the Free Software Foundation sees this as free software license.

PHP is an interpreted language widely used general purpose and that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. It generally runs on a web server, taking PHP code as its input and creating web pages as output. It can be deployed on most web servers and on almost every operating system and platform free of charge. PHP is installed in more than 20 million websites. It is also the most popular Apache module among computers using Apache as the web server. The latest version of PHP is 5.3.1 (at the time of writing this post) (for Windows) on 19 November 2009. Popular web applications are built with PHP like Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, phpbb, vbulleting, galleries and many others.

HostMonster PHP

Hostmonster have the latest version PHP 5 installed on their servers with latest security patches and optimizations. For further customizing some options a custom PHP.ini is available where you can add your own settings if required for some PHP scripts or PHP applications.

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