There are a plethora of shared web hosting applications available.  In a typical environment for shared hosting, applications that can be installed included shopping carts, galleries, phpBB, Drupal, Joomla, WordPress and much more.  In effect, these are the most common scripts for the creation of websites.

WordPress is the most popular platform for blogging.  It is designed to be a simple but effective personal publishing tool.  PhpBB is software for an Internet forum that is PHP scripted.  Typically, phpBB is used in the creation of online communities where users can talk to each other, share ideas, post threads and so much more.  Some of the most prevalent galleries include Coppermine and Gallery.  Galleries allow users to create and upload objects into online albums.  Shopping carts are used for an online store where products are categorized.  Some of the most popular include oscommerce, magento and zencart.

In effect, just about any script using MySQL for data storage and is written in PHP can be run in today’s shared hosting environment.