Re: ASP and PHP.

PHP is free. ASP is part of IIS which I think you pay for ???? PHP will run on both Unix and Windows NT PHP has similar syntax to C, Perl and JavaScript, good for standards. ASP is based on BASIC, bad for standards. Loads of full working Open Source samples on the web for PHP. ASP talks the COM objects language, PHP4 with Zend (I believe) has some COM capabilities, if not all. PHP has native functions for communicating with MySQL and MSSQL. ASP must use ODBC, bad for performance. ASP has a higher number of users. Not necessarily a good thing but I think people are afraid of using PHP because they don't understand it. The list goes on............. I have tried to be un-biased, and I used Microsoft products for many years until I discovered the alternatives. If you want low cost, high performance leading edge technology, use PHP. If you want expensive and alleged tried and tested technologies that suffer with reliability and performance issues use ASP. The message I keep getting is that if you don't follow the Microsoft crowd you are considered a bit of a Black Sheep. This doesn't bother the hard core developers that want reliability and performance, but management want you to use products that they know about and are afraid to put there name to technologies that they simply don't understand. At the end of the day it depends on what you want to do with a scripting language, if you want portability and performance use PHP. If you want to be safe use ASP, wear a scarf when it's cold and always brush your teeth after meals. Hope this helps Andy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "broadcast" <info@broadcast-warehouse.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 11:42 AM Subject: [PHP-GENERAL] ASP and PHP. > What's the better (try and be unbiased) of ASP and PHP. > Major feature differences? > Scott > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >