ASP vs PHP

[hydrogin]

never used ASP before, whats the key differences between using scripts in ASP and PHP

 

[Juicify]

If it's normal ASP vs PHP, I think it's a matter of taste. I think PHP is much easier, and hail .htaccess! There is a much bigger PHP community.

But some people are like hail ASP.NET, it's much different from regular ASP.

 

[Stanley]

PHP is open source and it's cheaper to implement.
ASP is closed source and requires IIS (Microsoft's web server)

what are you interested in exactly? which one to learn?

 

[stickycarrots]

:bowdown: PHP
:ak: ASP

<?
$php = "sexy";
?>

 

[L146705]

I have used both extensively asp in industry and php at home. Asp is used more in business and industry and is thought more secure. asp costs more and you need asp servers iis. It tends to run with sqlsrv(microsofts database).

 

[jacob]

:bowdown: PHP
:ak: ASP

<?
$php = "sexy";
?>

:music06: I concur! :xyxthumbs:

 

[tangem2]

php is very powerful, cheap, and easy to learn. You cant beat that.

 

[Jdog]

Is ASP more geared towards the web 2.0 stuff? For some reason I got that in my head but don't know why.

 

[Stanley]

Is ASP more geared towards the web 2.0 stuff? For some reason I got that in my head but don't know why.

nope, they're both powerful in this area. Web 2.0 is just a concept, it represents the teamwork of a community as opposed to a sole owner. Think Digg or Wikipedia.

 

[John]

I've always thought php owned asp but just take a look at plentyoffish. That site is programmed in .net and is run on 1 or 2 servers, that is pretty powerful.

 

[Squirrelinabox]

ASP is closer to PHP than it is to ASP.NET. If you're choice is between ASP and PHP, it's really just up to you, though if you're contemplating ASP.NET, I'd say there ONLY thing that should hold you back is the cost.

ASP.NET, IMO, is leaps and bounds beyond PHP. As John pointed out, ASP.NET easily trumps PHP for performance. Throw on top of that the cleanliness of your projects due to things like having a code behind model and user controls, well, it's just THAT much better.

If you're just toying around and looking to build quick simple sites, PHP is probably just fine. If you want to build larger scale sites and/or have more opportunities to work professionally, go with ASP.NET.

 

[hydrogin]

k I think I get the main idea now, thanks for the help