php and asp

vahidi

php is better than asp?
what diffrence there is between php and asp?
who can i access to a caption of fields of a special table?

Ph0eniX

PHP/MySQL combo can run on almost any platform where ASP is NT/2000 bound.

I don't understand your other question. Sorry.

bastien

is php better than asp?

both are server side languages, both run almost anywhere now (ASP will require third party component to run on Unix - see chilisoft, or asp2php)

both are very powerful languages...the main downside to ASP is that all programming really makes use of COM objects which makes things a little slower (however in most cases it doesn;t really matter)

both do all sorts of stuff

what it comes down to is how comfortable you feel with the languages and most of all what language the CLIENT wants you to use. (ASP may have a few more security holes in it (typical MS product, but that will change)

ASP.NET is another animal all together. it uses a special framework and changes the langauge from VBscript to choice of (C# (C sharp, MS java) or C++ or VB.NET) which may give more flexibilty in the future. But both the server and the client machines must have the framework installed to make use of the new .NET technology. Easy to do in closed environment but harder to get all users on the Internet to accept this need to download the framework.

as to your third question I don;t understand what the hell your asking

Ph0eniX

Wow! ..I didn't know you could run ASP on UNIX. I gotta look into that.

But isn't ASP2PHP a script converter?

bastien

but if it runs your current asp files, who cares...guarantee you clients won't care unless there is a problem

Ph0eniX

Originally posted by bastien
but if it runs your current asp files, who cares...guarantee you clients won't care unless there is a problem

ASP2PHP doesn't always work for me though. It can only convert very basic scripts.

Also, The .NET Framework will be a part of the Next version of Windows so the download problem will be solved.

bastien

but what about all the people who don't wanna upgrade...consider all the other stuff that is gonna come with it (digital rights management software is the biggie I don't need😃 )got enough stuff via morpheus to consider this a problem...plus snoopware (my term 😕 ) that refers the big software makers trying to sniff systems to report back what is on it or potentially worse kill software it doesnt like....

also the who privacy thing, as more laws come into effect in the name of combatting terrorism, i dont want to leave footprints on the net telling people where i have been, who i talked to etc...

i remember reading somewhere that the P4 chips (and therefore the machines) are trackable by their serial number...am i getting paranoid, maybe
😃

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ASP can run on unix machine, but only with a special 'interpreter' engine like chilisoft. You're basically emulating ASP support, which is not always desirable, especially not in a production environment.

Most people find that PHP is easier to learn than ASP, and PHP is growing quickly, getting all sorts of cool functions compiled-in as standard. Things like database support for a trillion databases, the totally-cool GD library etc make it very easy to create very usefull scripts without the hassle of MS's COM shite (excuzes le mot)

If you're "bound" to use windows server, by all means use ASP, MS products work better on MS platforms.

But it you're free to use unix, PHP is probably the way to go.

As for .net, well, if that does catch on, how long do you think it will take the opensource community to create PHP support for it? 🙂

csn

fark that - use PHP on windows too 🙂.

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I like your way of thingking CSN 😃

nice to see you here too btw.