ASP vs PHP

Anon

Hi all,

I just wanted some opinions and info, so if you have a spare moment, perhaps you could input your thoughts.

I am a PHP coder, but I would like to know what the pro's and con's are of PHP over ASP and vice versa, for stability, security, useability, speed, platform, etc etc.

Any input you have would be greatly recieved.

Anon

Thanks in advance.

Mike Pearce

khaine

PHP outways ASP in quite a few ways. Firstly the development environment is free for PHP where as ASP requires interdev from microsoft which is quite costly. PHP is far easyer to understand and pick up the basics of where as ASP seems to need a degree to understand.I have tried both and gave up on asp it seems like far too much work for very little results.
As for the stability. Its microsoft says it all really.. Its about as stable as a jelly in an earthquake.
Security. Again it has quite a few holes that no-one seems to want to plug.

Basically I would stick with PHP much nicer language.

Mark.

Anon

php runs on several os. Asp does not.
php is free 'beer'. Asp is not.
php is free 'speech'. Guess what it is like with asp.

There is several ways of using templates with php. I dont have the slightest clues about asp and templates.

There is a wonderfull php mode for emacs. I m not sure it exist for asp 🙂

Anon

you can code asp in whatever you want, you DO NOT need to use interdev. i used to code asp in notepad, then moved to editplus which is what i use now for php.

php was designed from the ground up as a web dev language - asp was adapted from vb - that is probably the most important difference. also, php is open source so people are adding new functionality to it all the time. just take a look at the php manual http://php.net/manual/en/html/

-paul
http://xhawk.net

Anon

Thanks Guys, I really appreciate it, I know what you mean Paul, that makes a lot of sense, anything else anyone?

Thanks again.

Mike

khaine

Fair enough I was lead to belive that I need interdev. Its one of my biggest blocks against ASP interdev is rather confusing.

abagaglia

You guys are both right, you may or not need to use InterDev to develop ASP applications.
It mainly depends on which functionalities you want in Your pages.

Adding lines of server-side code or client side code to an ASP page could be simply done using notepad or a common text editor and it would work fine (as long as your web server understands VBscript or Jscript).

The problem might arise if you want to use PageObjects or similar in you pages. In this case you want to use InterDev for the intrinsic hidden code it writes in your page when you add them. In my experience, it is almost impossible to maintain such a page with notepad.

I use PHP and I'm quite comfortable with it.

ASP is slow, and for big projects it can become a "nasty guest".

See You all

uhrbid

I've worked with both PHP and ASP (neither one for very long though). I've worked with both using a text-editor (UltraEdit32) and I've managed both using InterDev (not to nice with PHP pages...). I personally prefer PHP because of the relative ease of learning, but ASP is not much harder.

PHP's big advantage is it's open-source and that always entail lots of supportive people and site (like this one) whereas ASP is very much not open-source and you'll find gfar less fre support of ASP help.

Anon

The truth is for database connectivity php works extremely well with mysql (free & lovely)... where as asp and access spells trouble unless you go for expensive SQL7...

PHP runs on OpenSource Platforms
ASP only runs (well) on IIS (although using chillisoft linux is possible)
PHP works sweet in clustering (along with mysql)
PHP seems to be more reliable and closely related to C++, Turbo Pascal and Perl