Lunarpages Things You Can Do With PHP

Things You Can Do With PHP

PHP, the popular server side scripting language, is a free part of any good web hosting company’s services. Because PHP is open source and does not require any licensing fees, Lunarpages is able to provide this incredibly technology for free for every webmaster! Great news for website owners who would like to add some incredible features to their repertoire.

So what can you do with PHP?

Create & Manage Contests & Drawings

PHP scripting can do a variety of really cool things and one of them happens to be contest-related. Using PHP scripts , you can create daily drawings, weekly winners, or even random giveaways by installing simple scripts to your site. You can also run a variety of contests this way, such as photo or design contests, quizzes, and more. Add questions, delete unnecessary responses, post results, tally winners, or select a winner at random to display on your website – with PHP it couldn’t be easier.

Visitor Tracking

If you have ever wanted to have an active count of customers (or potential customers) visiting your site, their geographical location, and even how often specific visitors come back and how long they browse your site, you can do all this through some great PHP scripts. For example, you can monitor daily clicks, watch and track specific users to find out where they came from and what they were looking for, and you can even find out personal information, such as geographic location, IP address, browser type, operating system, and more! This can mean the difference between gaining a new customer or losing them to the competiton.

Customer Blogs & CMS

Blog Web Hosting and Content Management Systems are the wave of the future, and if you want to manage these kinds of sites, PHP can help! With these PHP scripts, you can edit and offer specific web page subdomains to your customers, utilize a PHP-based CMS , create a social network, and much, much more. This could really raise your business in the ranks of Google, especially if the users who run your subdomains are offering unique daily content. This is also a great source of revenue, as many of these PHP scripts are free and open source.

Install a Shopping Cart

Lunarpages offers a variety of shopping carts for you to choose from, including many PHP-based ones like ZenCart. However, if you find a better open source or paid PHP-based shopping cart, you can run it on your Lunarpages Web Hosting account for free! There are many resources for open source shopping carts and even more opportunities to test demos and find the perfect one for you, so look around before you decide – PHP shopping cart software is available via simple searches or by asking experts in PHP forums.

Run WordPress & Forums

With PHP, hosting a blog or forum is a piece of cake! Lunarpages specializes in PHP websites, so we offer a ton of PHP resources. From WordPress to discussion boards, we’ve got you covered. We’re the only web host in the world to accommodate our users by allowing you to turn on or off our PHP5 capability, so if your software requires this important and secure version of PHP, you’ll want to ask us for more information. Installing WordPress and forums has never been easier as well, since we offer one-click installs for the most popular platforms.

PHP scripts are a great resource, so if your website host doesn’t offer PHP, you should move up to one who does. This added functionality can do some incredible things, and there are an amazing assortment of sites to find these free scripts on!