A good PHP hosting site?

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Anyone know of a reliable free bannerless PHP hosting site where I can practice my programming skills? I also need access to an SQL database. If I get a working application together I might be willing to upgrade, but I don't want to be bothered by the state of the site before that.

Any suggestions? (right now I do have a host, but it isn't very reliable, I'm just considering alternatives).
Oh yeah, and I'd really prefer if they use PHP 5, right now the Freehostia site I have use PHP 4, making it useless to try to learn some PHP features like Object oriented programming.
 
What would probably suit you better is to develop locally instead of trying to develop and test on a remote server. This way, you could develop your site without having to have an internet connection.

I use XAMMP because it is an open source suite that enables you use a local Apache server with whatever PHP support you wish to use and has a mySQL service as well. The best thing about it is that there is even a portable version which you could install on a relatively small jump drive (less than 1GB), plug into any computer, start up the server and develop using any text editor and a web browser.

BTW, once you are running the XAMPP suite, to view your website you will need to place your documents in the /xampp/htdocs/yoursitename folder and then enter http://localhost/yoursitename into your web browser's address bar.

Once you have the basics down, there is a HUGE development community that you can get answers to any bigger questions.
 
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