ASP or PHP

james2010

Of these two similar languages, which one would you say has the greatest future in it? Why?

brandonschnell

ASP because it has microsoft behind it.

until PHP has a major company behind it, (such as Sun/IBM) PHP will always be a niche language. but as niche languages go, PHP is a very nice one.

tomhath

I wouldn't really consider ASP a language. It's more like a runtime environment. You can write asp pages in vbscript, javascript, and others. A lot of ASP is done with COM, the dlls can been written in any language (in one app we have dlls written in VB, C++, and Java all running together). And a lot of what was ASP is changing in .NET, much more will be done in VB.net or C#

As Brandon said, Microsoft will see to it that ASP or it's decendants will be around for a long time.

Anon

Well, I hate the fact that asp is winning over php... php is clearly so much better. But what really gets me is the fact that same people that put microsoft down are the same ones that don't want to move to another platform... so yeah asp will continue to dominate cause everyone is afraid to move to nix platform... like the one i am on now. OSX. it does every thing your win machines do ... but it's nix.

lucianoes

What is the purpose of such question? Go along with the one you like most.

I hate ASP because it's more difficult, more expensive to the Web host and many people claim it's slower. So far I've only had good times with PHP, and if I ever want to set up my own server I know it will be free. That last factor alone is enough to keep PHP alive for a very long time, unless someone comes up with something also free and even better. And that might just as well be PHP 5. Time will tell. ASP will morph into .NET and .NET will morph into something alse in two or three years. It's part of MS's scheme to create more and more needs and requirements so that people have to spring for their solutions over and over again. Old law of the market: crate a need then sell your solution. PHP will always be PHP, except a little better.

Anyway, like I said, go with the one you like (and can afford).

    Luciano ES
    Santos, SP - Brasil

Anon

I agree, the price will be what keeps php going. It would help if Sun got into it, but price is basically why I chose php.
As for which is better, well how many sites actually need more than what php can do? If php isn't enough for the site then it obviously isn't the right language to choose.
I don't think there is, or has ever been, an all in one language. But then again, I'm a beginner so I don't know much.

tasistro

I'd like to add that PHP is supported on many platforms while ASP is on MS platforms only. MS makes money out of selling you the same thing again and again. Working with ASP will get you into an MS lock in. You will have to pay them when they tell you not when want to. Support for it will die when they want to not when ASP stops being usefull.

php runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc... and Windows. You have options for more stable platforms and secure platforms than others.

Saludos
Gerardo