Good News! Setting up your Hostgator sites to run PHP 5.3 is really really easy.
Just add this one line to your .htaccess file and your site will run PHP 5.3 instead of PHP 5.2
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AddType application/x-httpd-php53 .php
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It’s nice when life is this simple. Take the rest of the day off and chill.