Free hosting with PHP support

[svenicsale]

Does anyone knows some free hostings with PHP support, that are not well known and supports mail()? PLease post here any one you may know, and your expereince with them...

[brendandonhue]

Why does it matter if the web host is well known or not???

[svenicsale]

Well, it doesn't actually, it's just that the well known hostings have blocked mail() and similar because of misuse by spamming...

[diamonds]

don't try tripod. It supports perl, but not php. It does support e-mailing through perl, though!

[brendandonhue]

lycos.co.uk has PHP support, not sure about mail().....

[svenicsale]

Yeah, but I don't know how to use perl to send mails.... I wanted to submit this post but there is no PERL POLL.. Can you explain me how to just send two values for ex. $name and $email that are entered into submit box form???

[CyCo]

...so, are you looking for a perl email script or a web host that supports PHP...?

[svenicsale]

Both.. I kinda like PHP but since I see that it is to hard to find appropriate hosting, I must use something else(*.pl)

[CyCo]

free PHP hosting with mail() is a bit scarce... I can suggest Netfirms for free hosting, and a cgi-bin that will execute mail with no prob....of course "free" means banners on every page, though...

[Jona]

Originally posted by svenicsale
I kinda like PHP but since I see that it is to hard to find appropriate hosting, I must use something else(*.pl)

That's not true. You can find many free hosts that support PHP (at least to an extent) easily. Finding hosts that support CGI and Perl, though, is a different story. http://t35.com/ supports PHP, and I believe mail() as well; though I haven't tried it. http://lycos.co.uk/ supports PHP and gives you a MySQL database--still not sure about the mail() thing, though. :p

Jona

[brendandonhue]

I have just tried it, and Lycos.co.uk does work with mail()

[pyro]

You might want to take a look at these two site:

http://www.free-php-hosting.com/
http://phphosts.codewalkers.com/