PHP or ASP?

M0nkeyNUTS · 9 Jan 2007 at 19:44

as the title says

Beansprout · 9 Jan 2007 at 19:44

Silly question. But presuming you don't mean ASP .NET, then PHP.

M0nkeyNUTS · 9 Jan 2007 at 20:04

ive only tried asp

never seen asp .net

what would you recommend for someone who only knows html, css, and basic asp+databases

Freakish_05 · 9 Jan 2007 at 20:13

M0nkeyNUTS said:
ive only tried asp

never seen asp .net

what would you recommend for someone who only knows html, css, and basic asp+databases

PHP hands down.
I started coding my personal site in PHP last week after using Dreamweaver to code it all for me for the last 4 years. Ok, its a fair bit of work at first, but its really rewarding. Plus, the support for PHP is great. The www.php.net website has a number of code examples for each PHP function.

Or it could just be my dislike for object-orientated programming

lol

Karl · 9 Jan 2007 at 21:28

You can use ASP and .NET for top-down programming just the same as you can PHP...

I'd rather use ASP.NET over PHP because it's got a lot of visual features to help you out, and I've grown used to it over the years.

blade007 · 9 Jan 2007 at 22:47

a lot of corporate level stuff runs on ASP ... I don't know how true this is -- but heavyduty runs best on ASP .. something to do with SQL being a lot quicker than MySQL for big databases.

I'm sure I will get corrected --- but that is what I read.

joeyjojo · 9 Jan 2007 at 22:53

Get good with both tbh. Both php and asp.net are good languages. Start with php I suppose.

JonC · 9 Jan 2007 at 23:04

blade007 said:
a lot of corporate level stuff runs on ASP ... I don't know how true this is -- but heavyduty runs best on ASP .. something to do with SQL being a lot quicker than MySQL for big databases.

I'm sure I will get corrected --- but that is what I read.

Heh, You probably mean SQL server. SQL simply stands for Structured Query Language.

I don't know that much, but what I do know is Ruby on Rails!!

blade007 · 9 Jan 2007 at 23:15

don't think i put that down vey well .. Server SQL (the MS version) is much faster than MySQL. So if you have a big eccommerce site ... say 40,000 products ... ServerSQL is the way. But for normal stuff MySQL is cool.

Mr^B · 10 Jan 2007 at 09:54

ASP.Net with C#

Clear winner.

elkdanger · 10 Jan 2007 at 10:05

Personally I'd recommend you learn both. But if you're not really interested in learning how to program and would prefer just to create a website, then ASP.Net, using the free Visual Web Developer is the way to go.

purejamie · 12 Jan 2007 at 17:15

elkdanger said:
Personally I'd recommend you learn both. But if you're not really interested in learning how to program and would prefer just to create a website, then ASP.Net, using the free Visual Web Developer is the way to go.

Agreed - also creating with ASP.Net will give you good entry into using VS which you can apply to other non-web programming..

Dj_Jestar · 12 Jan 2007 at 17:22

Depends entirely on circumstance.

Massive userbase on an enterprise scalable application? ASP.NET with C# backend, using SQL Server.

4 page homepage/personal blog? PHP + MySQL (cheaper hosting.)