PHP is the most popular web programming solution in the world. The most dynamic and responsive sites use PHP. Many blogs, personalised home pages, forums, visitor tracking, information retrieval forms, sending emails, online shops ... are developed in PHP. PHP is what you need!

Example:
Using today's date...
            <?php
            $cejour = date('d');
            echo 'Aujourd\'hui, nous sommes le : ' . $cejour;
            ?>
                

Example:
Send an email that will not be considered as spam
                <?php
                $headers ='From: mon_adresse@votredomaine.com'."\n";
                $headers .='Reply-To: adresse@votredomaine.com'."\n";
                $headers .='Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"'."\n";
                $headers .='Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit';
                mail('adresseemaildedestination@domaine.com', 'Sujet', 
                'Message contenu de l email', $headers); 
                ?>
                

Use PHP at OVH:

Versions and updates:

• Available versions: 4 ; 5 ; 5,3.
• Select a version: you can choose which version of PHP you want through your .htaccess file. Find out more.
• Auto Update: PHP is updated automatically by OVH on your shared hosting. If there are significant changes between 2 versions, you can choose not to receive the update if your site is incompatible with this update.

Go further: Customise the use of PHP and Apache:

• Easily enable or disable the global register
• Choose a version: 4 or 5
• Use URL rewriting on the fly and optimise your referencing and semantics.
• Activate Ioncube
• Password-protect access to selected site directories
• Save time with a Framework: Use pre-developed packs with functions instead of making them yourself!

Explore the features of PHP based on your hosting offer:

Manage your databases with MySQL

MySQL is quite a simple system, which makes it very efficient for managing databases! Combined with scripting languages such as PHP, PERL, ASP ... it lets you create dynamic websites such as a forum, a blog or an online store.

MySQL from OVH, simple in 1-click!

Create... Modify... Restore...

Manage your databases with ease. In your Manager, you can:

• Create a database


• Change a database password


• Customise a database name


• List your databases


• Restore a deleted database


• Delete a database
  
  

Backup your databases

Totally fool-proof...

Daily Backups: each night a backup routine for each of your databases is carried out.
You can easily restore it from your Manager.

...and custom made.

Save your database as a .sql file and allow for easy migration of your data.

Backup sent by email in two clicks!

From your Manager, you can request that your database backup is sent to the email address of the owner.

Schedule backups
automatically with Crontab

Included with the shared hosting packages...

Learn more...