ASP+ or PHP

[equuelus]

Greetings...

I have this problem choosing which language should I use for my website. Which one is better, and easier to learn? Can anybody advise me plus explaination on this?

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equuelus

I like ASP because that's what I'm familiar with and because I develop primarily for a small MS-based intranet. If I was in a *nix environment I'd probably learn and use PHP.

Paul

The way I learned is that if your server is using a Microsoft server software, then go with ASP. This is because the support for it is built in. Otherwise, with other software on the server you probably want to go with php. You can do ASP on software other than Microsofts, but you need add in software.

That is what I was taught, hope it helps.

[richy]

I thought I might give PHP a shout, as ASP is winning 2-0 on comments at the moment! For learning, I was able to learn PHP myself very easily. I work on projects that have ASP in and find the PHP much easier to do. I don't know how easy ASP is to set up on the server, but it did actually take a while to get PHP and MySQL set up on the system. If you do use PHP, use MySQL for the database, and can I recommend the MySQL database administrator called phpMyAdmin (http://www.htmlwizard.net/phpMyAdmin if anybodies interested)

[parksie]

My kind of thinker!

[HaxSoft]

I don't know much about ASP, but PHP is very easy to learn if you know C or Java or JavaScript. Being familiar with C and JavaScript, it took me two days to get my first PHP project up and running and I gotta say I love PHP.

But like someone mentioned above; if you are developing for a Microsoft platform, you should probably stick to ASP. On the other hand, if you are developing for a Linux server running Apache or something like that ... Then PHP is definitely the way to go.

Just an opinion, anyway.

[richy]

I see in the poll there is an option for ASP+. Obviously this is a new version of ASP, but can anybody tell me what the differences, good and bad are for this and where I can find out more information on it.

[equuelus]

check

http://www.asp.net

there are several cool links over there.