PHP or ASP

Firearok

Can anyone say PHP or ASP is faster

dougal85

If you google it you'll probably find numerous tests. However, I don't think any of them are likely to be particularly accurate.

Infact, I think the question is fairly irrelevant. Both languages have proven to be fast enough to work on high traffic websites. What more do you need?

Piranha

Excuse me, but what does this have to do with databases? You posted it in the database forum.

Anyway, I would like to add Java as anoter possibility. What you should use depends on what languages you know, and what type of application you want to create. Note that this are my opinions.

PHP is preferrable if it is an easy application that uses a few database tables, not to complicated logic and are built mainly to handle websites. It is easy to learn the basics in PHP.

Java (with enterprise beans) is best when you have lots of database tables, complicated logic or the application is not built mainly to handle websites. It is pretty easy to learn the basics in java and jsp, but it takes time and effort to learn enterprise beans.

ASP should not be used for new development. .NET and ASP.NET is ok, but there is no reason to use a old version of ASP. .NET basically have the same usage and learning curve as Java, although I don't know how it handles databases.

tomhath

The biggest factor is whether you want to use Microsoft for the web server and database or some other technology (Linux, Apache, etc.)

If you use all Microsoft (SQLServer, IIS, Active Directory, etc) then use .NET. If you want to use open source then consider Php or one of the other popular languages like Ruby, Python, or Java.

Any of the above can be fast enough (or really slow) depending on many factors besides the language.

dougal85

There is no reason why you can't use SQL Server with PHP or MySQL with .NET if you want to mix it up a bit.

Why not play around with the languages and see what takes your fancy?

Unless your building a website with a large number of users I'd be surprised if speed is going to be a big problem and maybe not even a consideration (within reason).

Weedpacket

Differences in programmer skill and productivity outweigh speed differences in language implementations. Speed is not the issue by several orders of magnitude.

Reason being, those implementations that are significantly slower wouldn't be popular enough to be well-known.

Firearok wrote:
Can anyone say PHP or ASP is faster

You just did.

tomhath wrote:
If you use all Microsoft (SQLServer, IIS, Active Directory, etc) then use .NET.

This is my experience with ASP as well; if you've already got a Microsoft shop and you want a website that ties in natively with everything else in the business then ASP.NET makes sense. But to start from scratch with a standalone website then ASP.NET is 95% overkill with massive overhead.