[RESOLVED] PHP vs ASP (I NEED HELP)

chads2k2

I know I could be starting a flame war here. I do NOT want to do that in the least bit. Here is what I want. I have to explain (and actually convince) this company who is set on using ASP to use PHP and why. Here is the situation this company has over 330,000 pictures (110,000 items) they are selling and want to put them all online, not with a full e-commerce option, more of a put the items online in a database and be able to searched. I need to convince them to use PHP with either SQL Server or MySQL for a backend. As far as I know they wouldn't argue IIS to Apache. But I might be wrong.

Does anyone have any sited examples in regards to servers, security, processing time/power, or anything else I can use to make my case? I would also like some good sources for the SQL Server/MySQL comparison if possible. Factual real data, not just a flame war gone out of control. A source like Network Computing would be ideal. Examples of big name players using PHP (doesn't Honda use PHP?) would help significantly.

I never thought in all my years of development I would have to convince someone that PHP is better than ASP. Not in a million years did I ever think that. However, there are still network administrators out there who seem to think that PHP should still be ignored. Open Source is making a tital wave recently and damnit I will be damnned if I don't try and sway one company in the direction of open source. I just need everyone's help. I will try doing the research alone, but the more that help the more powerful my search becomes.

Thanks,
Chad

nemonoman

http://www.zend.com/solutions/why-php.php

http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/hull_asp.html

http://www.html-faq.com/php/?phpvsasp

thorpe

well you could start your agrument with the fact that asp has no native way of dealing with images.

drew010

yeah be sure to include the fact that php is free and so are 99% of its libraries you can add on. people just love charging you money for an activex compenent you can use to handle images in an asp app.

Weedpacket

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10272676

pohopo

Is it ASP or ASP.NET? There is a HUGE difference as they are completely different languages. If it is ASP the company is not very bright.

chads2k2

They are saying ASP but I am imaging they mean ASP.NET. It would be an unfair comparison between PHP5 and ASP .... PHP5 and ASP.NET then you have a good one. I am using the Oracle site that was given as a basis. Nobody argues with Oracle and plus I have stats from tiobe.com that show the language usage among developers. Interesting stuff. Thank you to everyone. One thing I don't have is ASP's usuage stats. I have PHP's from the PHP.net site but not ASP's. Microsoft I would think would release that, but have not thus far. Let me know if you can get anything on security or usage. Thanks.

Chad

jayant

nothing can be better than http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000279.html / http://public.yahoo.com/~radwin/talks/yahoo-phpcon2002.htm . It is from the creator of php, promoting php @ yahoo 🙂

chads2k2

Thanks! That is perfect.

Chad