ASP or PHP

[sadie]

Hi

Which is better ASP or PHP?

Sadie

[TJW]

Depends what you are trying to acheive and the platform your working on.

TJW

[Mr Chunder]

If you are on NT/Win2k and are building complex applications, I would go for ASP since you have access to a well established wealth of applications via COM/OLE, database connectivity via ODBC, also it is a Microsoft product so you can be ***ured of the best compatibilty with the IIS webserver. On the otherhand, it is a Microsoft product so you will suffer the Microsoft way !

If you are building apps for both NT and Unix, then you'd be better of with something like PHP since it could be totally portable between the two.

Well for Unix only, PHP seems to be very popular. Of course, their are other languages as well. PHP is freeware so support is limited to to what people say on forums like this. There are companies that you could pay for support.

[Alien]

Agreed it all depends on your target server. If you know any VB then a good bet would be ASP as it is based on VB and is quite easy to pick up. I have been told by an ASP/PHP developer taht he prefers PHP but hes a linux nut. I know there is a lot of support for ASP developers what with sites like 4guysfromrolla and the comprehensive MSDN Microsoft provides.

[Tommy]

Sadie,

Go for what's most comfortable for you.

Tommy

[Phiberop]

ASP and PHP are very versatile, whichever one you know best will work best :)

If you use ASP a lot, http://www.aspin.com is a very nice site as well. Lots of references and programs.

Regards,

Mike

[Tommy]

Theres a really useful ASP guide on Web Host Directory

http://www.webhostdir.com/guides/asp/

We've had some great feedback on it and it's linked to by several programming tutorial sites. Worth a look if you're still deciding....

Tommy

[fantom]

I give my vote to PHP!
The usage of PHP is growing at an astonishing rate (check http://www.php.net for their usage stats). ASP is great too, but since my IE5 hangs on 99% of sites using ASP I developed this anti-ASP feeling, and I have to use Netscape to view those sites (and you don't wanna know how much I hate Netscape).
Plus, I got into the PHP programming, still a newbie, but it seems as a piece of cake with a ****load of features you can use... and if you happen to use it with ZEND Optimizer and some of those GZIP modules that compress the PHP generated pages, it can save you both time and bandwidth, compared to ASP... (this is my opinion, and I might be wrong).

[Mr Chunder]

fantom, do you run PHP on Linux/Unix or WinNT/2K?

People say that Linux runs PHP best but I'd like to stay with MS platforms for running sites because of supporting software but I'd like to know what your experience has been.

Thanks

[fantom]

I run it on a Linux box... and the experience has been just amazing. For my needs, I don't think there is a better combination than php & mysql, and it runs the best on Unix I believe. I also had it running on WinNT machine at home, but since NT is missing some vital Unix components (sendmail, etc), I gave up on that...

Then again, I wasn't exposed to ASP and Windows components that much, so I wouldn't know of any advantages of ASP over PHP... (yet)

[Joolz]

php is certainly a very good language and 9 times out of 10 I prefer it when processing forms. For example, form fields are already variables. No Request.Form("blah"), just $blah!

Now to me, that rules! But, there is no COM/COM+, you don't have objects (as such) to execute remotely. This can suck if you a COM guru.

Platform? If installed correctly, it works fine under IIS. However, it is not easy to get right. Any *nix environment is the obvious choice for a high turnover site on a cheap server case.

But do you use Linux, NetBSD, or FreeBSD? Well, I would recommend (for uptime and network brillance/security) FreeBSD. However, as with NT/IIS, need someone who knows how to keep it secure and is always subscribed to BugTraq and knows how to use cvsup.

Oh, and if you choose Linux... Friends don't let friends use Redhat. Use Slackware or Debian (whichever one floats your boat).

[Mr Chunder]

Joolz - Whats wrong with RedHat ?

[fantom]

Yeah, what's wrong with RedHat...?
Almost every webhost is using it with their Linux package (even though I've noticed quite a few with FreeBSD instead).

[Joolz]

Does anybody here read Bugtraq? If so... why even say that there's nothing wrong with RedHat?

RedHat is by FAR the most insecure of the Linux distributions. They always use Betas of libraries and release too soon. So, you cannot guarantee it's security. For example, RedHat 7.0 used a pre-release kernel rather than a formal kernel build? Does that answer your question?

[fantom]

Well, I guess that's true... but I've learned from using Linux distributions that you shouldn't get the x.0 releases, always wait for x.1, x.2 releases, since they always mess something up with the x.0 ones...

[andrews_john]

I liked PHP because of it's similarity with C++, that i learned first...

[owenwood123]

PHP appears to be very big. Their are early languages as well. PHP is software so support is limited to to what people say on forums like this.ASP as it is established on VB and is rather easy to choice up.

[samualleeker]

People tell that Linux runs PHP better but I'd like to stay with MS platforms for campaigning sites since of confirming software but I'd like to know what your experience has been.

[Broderick]

Hi

I think both are good technologies to work .If you take database into account ASP works best with Access and Ms-Sql where as PHP is best suited to work with MySql database. It is easy to program on server side in PHP,where as to do the same in ASP you need to have administrative rights to work.

[Malcom666]

Well for Unix only, PHP seems to be very popular. Of course, their are other languages as well. PHP is freeware so support is limited to to what people say on forums like this. There are companies that you could pay for support

[hadadezer33]

People say Linux is the best PHP, but I'd like to keep cross-platform management of the site because of software support, but I'd like to know what your experience was.

[glanmartin62]

I think PHP is best because php is open source and secure.ASP is built by Microsoft but Develop website in asp required license is compulsory.so PHP better then ASP.

[Delois]

From my point of view PHP is better than ASP. The reason for that is PHP runs on both Linux as well as Windows. It is server side scripting language. It provides good plug-ins and through it you can easily create a website. HTML is used to design of website. It supports all major databases like MS SQL, My SQL, and Oracle. It is free and easily downloads it from internet. It is open source language.

[dikertrome]

Both are best programming language for website developing. But I choose to PHP because it is open source and has large numbers of developed scripts and plugins. It also supports almost every database in living, and is really capable of handling applications of any complexity.


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