Information for developers/programmers
PHP
PHP processes run under account-specific userids.
pear & phing are pre-installed. Holders of unix accounts can request SSH access in order to run commandline utilities.
- Openplatform unix-based hosting accounts: PHP extension summary
- Sending emails from a PHP page using the SwiftMailer PHP library
- Reading & writing to a database using the pear MDB2 library
- Using the PHP loader utility for the YUI javascript libraries
Miscellaneous Developer Info
When running cgi scripts on a unix-based plan, you may need to ensure that only the appropriate webserver account has write access to the script file.
The easiest way to ensure this is to place it in the provided cgi-bin folder and set the permissions to rwxr-x--- (chmod 750)
Many FTP clients have an interface for setting these file permissions.