PHP and ASP

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Hi all :)

I've been using Brinkster.com to host the asp sites I've been doing, but I want to learn php and use the same host for both, does anyone know of any good free php and asp hosts? I've been looking here and the top 3 are ZoveNet, GlobalWeb and Zogola, has anyone used these, are they any good or are there others that people think are better?

I also need a good paid for php and asp host for this site if anyone can recommend any that'd be great thanks :)

What is the difference between php and asp, is one better then the other? As you can see from the Donability site, atm I'm using asp to display the pictures in the gallery, would php be better for this?

I've been looking at the tutorials on tizag.com and noticed two different databases, SQL and MySQL, whats the difference between them, is one better then the other? Does it matter which is used with php and asp? And do both work with Access?

Thanks.
 
Access is a database system, MySQL is a database system, SQL Server is a database system. All 3 can be accessed using the SQL language (Although SQL goes fruther and supports it's own language called Transact-SQL). Access really isn't designed for websites etc. It's more for home databases and things. MySQL is a nice free database server, hence it's most commonly used for projects and web systems like these very forums. SQL Server is a lot more feature packed but has a hefty price tag to go with it (Several thousand £ if memory serves). It's one of the "Big 3" in terms of Enterprise database systems, along with DBase, and Oracle.

As for PHP vs ASP, I would say that PHP is the better language simply because ASP is no longer a "current" language, and has been superceeded on the Microsoft platform by ASP.NET, which is a totally different approach to it.
 
Hexidecimal said:
Hi all :)

I've been using Brinkster.com to host the asp sites I've been doing, but I want to learn php and use the same host for both, does anyone know of any good free php and asp hosts? I've been looking here and the top 3 are ZoveNet, GlobalWeb and Zogola, has anyone used these, are they any good or are there others that people think are better?

I also need a good paid for php and asp host for this site if anyone can recommend any that'd be great thanks :)

What is the difference between php and asp, is one better then the other? As you can see from the Donability site, atm I'm using asp to display the pictures in the gallery, would php be better for this?

I've been looking at the tutorials on tizag.com and noticed two different databases, SQL and MySQL, whats the difference between them, is one better then the other? Does it matter which is used with php and asp? And do both work with Access?

Thanks.
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for your free web hosting look in the sticky there is a thread with a site that lists some hosting sites and reviews by us (ocuk people mainly)

as the person above has said asp is not asp anymore. php is easier to me anyway. i learnt it quite quickly. why not learn both?

as for database, i would suggest sticking with MySQL purely for cost reasons. remember that although they all use SQL they are all different ie the features list is quite different, if you wrote a SQL statement for one of them, you wouldnt necessarily be able to use the same in the other (complex statements).
 
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