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Free PHP Hosting :: PHP/MYSQL Web Hosting Reviews :: The Best Spot to Search and Compare Free PHP Web Hosts.. An of course, there is actually an entire site dedicated to the topic of free PHP Hosting sties. Wow. I love the Internet. How can folks afford to do this. I see that some have…

Just $5/month! – Tranquil Hosting(tq). I need a web hoster that has PHP4 and Mysql support. These are the folks that cafelog.com were using for a while. Wow, great prices. $25/month gets you to 2GB of disk or $15/month gets you 250MB and PHP4 and Mysql. Only issue is that frontpage extensions aren’t supported, so…

tb-standalone – Standalone TrackBack. Wow, trackback and pings are a great idea that blogger doesn’t seem to have. You can basically incorporate entries across a bunch of blogs with trackback and know who is linked to you. Here is a standalone tool that does this for you via a CGI script.

Blogger archive script generator. Very cool a script generator so that you can get the archives to go latest first, etc. Nice work Phil!

Blogger FAQ blog. Yuck, the official Blogger FAQ doesn’t help with all the tags that you need. Here is a more complete list. The one I’m looking for is $BlogArchiveFileName which you can use to put your archive list on the front page.

b2 > ReadMeYou can now post news from an email client! This is a great reason to use b2 or blogger pro or radioland. So, it looks like either I pay for the latter, or find a hoster with the former… But first you’ll have to edit b2config.php, filling the appropriate values for your POP3…

wapblogger – a WAP interface to Blogger, LiveJournal and other smart weblog-style tools. Wow, you can from a WAP phone send something to a blog. How cool. You need to hit the WAP URL wap.ubique.ch/wapblogger to get there from any wap phone. Can’t wait to try it. This plus audio blogging and the Radioland email…

b2 >b2 installation. Arrrgggh. Hours later and the problem is that the installation instructions for B2 are incomplete. You have to go into the mysql administrator and create a database called b2 and then it all works. Doesn’t mention this in the installation and you only get a cryptic “undefined database” message. Now, let’s try…

PHP Coder. OK, the last step is to get an IDE for PHP. Wow, amazing what is free. Just downloaded this tool which has syntax checker, etc. Now, I can single step and figure out what is going on.

b2 on a Windows server is not supported. Wow, still couldn’t get B2 to run, I had forgotten what configuration hell was with all the various INI files. Here are the quick notes from that author on hacking at c:\windows\php.ini… Too numerous are the threads about problems installing b2 on a Windows server, and too…