ASP v PHP

alfoxy

Hello all

What advantages does PHP have over ASP or visa versa ?

Thanks for any comments
Al

jerdo

PHP is more portable (can be used easily on multiple operating systems and webservers). It also supports more database systems.

Manat

ASP VS PHP,

PHP is portable
ASP is not

PHP is not owned by anyone, which complicates finger pointing
ASP belongs to microsoft, which simplifies finger pointing

PHP is free and open source, which means it's community developers who add features and develop patches.

ASP is owned by Microsoft, it's them who develop patches and upgrades. Since it's owned by one company, any information you want on it, you get it from a centralized place.
You go to msdn.microsoft.com, microsoft technet ect....
Everything you would need is on thier site, unlike PHP since it's many people contributing to the code.

PHP is open source, ASP is not. You must ask yourself, do you want the whole world to have easy access to ALL the source code of your underlying technology?

Now, forget ASP. Think of ASP.NET
ASP.NET kills PHP any day. If I were to choose any technology for a new project or projects, I would go for ASP.NET in a heartbeat. I cannot list all the advantages since it would be many pages long. Check it out

benbox

php is also far more user friendly and easier for people who have not much knowledge about programming to learn it really easily.

Manat

Hello

Actually I would have to disagree with the previous post.
I believe that ASP is far easier to learn than PHP.

ASP is basically made up of 5 objects that consists of methods and properties.

After you know those, understand the syntax, you pretty much know ASP.

ASP.NET, wow, that's another ballgame. It's the most powerfull programming language ever for the web. I suggest using C# as the code behind file. It's good to know that with ASP.NET, there is no more scripting, just full blown OOP.

PHP is not really easy to learn unless you've done Perl.

wilsonodk

PHP is not really easy to learn unless you've done Perl.

I would strongly disagree...
I've never used Perl and I found PHP to be much easier to learn than ASP.

PHP syntax is different enough from other web-based languages so as to prevent confusion, however it still functions like a more robust language.

ASP and VBScript get very difficult at times, however using JavaScript and PHP together is very easy.

ASP is basically made up of 5 objects that consists of methods and properties.

After you know those, understand the syntax, you pretty much know ASP.

Isn't that true for all programming languages?
Once you know the methods and properties, and understand the syntax you know the language. 🙂

As for which is better, that would have to be the one that is going to get you the job that allows for you to live. 🙂

jerdo

Good to know who the Microsoft marks are. Why use C#? Why not just use the language that Microsoft stole and relabeled C#? (It's called Java) Let's see ASP easily integrate with *nix (What the vast majority of the web is run on), multiple databases (not just Microsofts garbage), until it does it's not a viable option. Also to touch on your "everyone will have access to what my script is built on" scare tactic, open source hasn't been such a huge problem for Apache/Linux/etc if I recall correctly Microsoft products are still the most vulnerable/attacked most slowly fixed products out there and none are open source.