oh, i just read the "cord" thing. that is weird and seems a bit out of date, as they name the acronym for php "personal home page". originally that was the acronym, but soon therafter they changed it to "php hypertext preprocessor" because of copyright issues.
i don't know of any free hosting, but
www.vilitas.com has $9/mo plans that gives you everything you could possibly need for developing php/mysql.