PHP vs ASP

[25DORIS]

Hi!
Which is best? PHP or ASP
What is the difference between them?
Please give me some comments or suggestion about them.

[paullopez]

Hi


The topic itself is very e to discuss and pretty complex to conclude. In my opinion, you should select any one of them according to your needs, however your selection is based on many variables but not more important than preference. You need to focus on your site and follows the standard programming rules and good web design guidelines and also give more importance to the website content that the client was looking for. Both scripting language supports dynamic content tools so you take your pick.

Thanx

[vickey88]

Lots of people compare asp & php and determine that php is better.

The unfortunate thing, is that there are a lot of people that don't understand what asp.

Usually, people who say that php is better than asp actually mean that php is better than VBScript.

I agree with that, but asp is not VBScript.

asp is a far more powerful development tool than even most asp developers understand.

Because most asp developers don't fully understand asp, they don't utilise its full power. In fact quite often they blame asp because of its lack of power when really it's their lack of knowledge that is at fault.

There's a general misconception that asp is slow and not very powerful.

While it is true that there are a lot of sites that are badly written (In fact, I'd go so far as to say that most asp sites are badly written), it's unfair to say that the asp platform itself isn't very good.

In all, I'd say the average developer would be better off using php rather than asp because the average developer won't be capable of using asp to its strengths.

However, when used properly, asp is the best scripting based development platform around