RE: [PHP] PHP Vs ASP

Thanks for that, I had certainly heard that PHP was fast. I'm also concerned with the development process and functionality of the language. Are there things that are difficult to do in PHP that ASP or perl would be much better at? Is the development process much different? Is the main selling point of PHP its portability? If we were developing on solely UNIX or solely NT would PHP still be recommended above perl and ASP respectively....and why? I'm sorry to re-ask these questions if the ground has already been covered - I did look through the past month or so of postings and didn't see any reference to this kind of question (you guys must be posting too much :-) ) Cheers, Owen. > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Woolley [mailto:andy@milonic.com] > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 10:04 > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP Vs ASP > > > This has been asked many times on this list so I decided to dig out a > message from the archives. > > I set a query to retrieve 2000 rows from a table, populate a web page and > display the results in a web browser. > > Test one was an ASP page accessing a MS SQL table through ODBC. > The page was > displayed in between 12 and 14 seconds, not too bad I thought. > > Test two was also an ASP page but accessing MySQL directly without the > overhead of ODBC (which in my opinion is the easier choice to develop) the > page was displayed in around 4 seconds. I was absolutely amazed. > > I decided to delve a little deeper so I ported the ASP page to > PHP. Although > we are talking about a server that is only 5 metres away and is > connected to > workstations via 100Mbit connections, the results as you can see are > unbelievable. > > The PHP page connected to a MySQL table, displayed the full 2000 > records in > 2 seconds. > > So now it`s up to you 14 seconds or 2 seconds, and as for > reliability well, > its as good as the rest check out £ > ¨ZÓý[BfÎÍÃ http://www.businessmeetings.com its a > web site > that we have just re-written. It was originaly written in ASP connected to > MS SQL but it`s now a PHP web connected to MySQL and is now much better. > > Andy. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Owen Lewis" <owen@pinnacle.net.uk> > To: <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 8:40 AM > Subject: [PHP] PHP Vs ASP > > > > I've been trying to find an educated comparison of ASP and PHP on the > > internet, can someone point me in the right direction or would someone > care > > to voice an opinion? > > > > We are considering the possibility of streamlining our development of > > websites which are currently hosted on both NT and UNIX. > Currently we tend > > to use perl on UNIX and ASP on NT, if PHP compares well to both of these > we > > may well decide to develop our sites using PHP in future. Are there any > > pitfalls in going down the PHP route that anyone can tell me about? > > > > I'd be grateful for your opinions or direction to a site that might > discuss > > the above. > > > > Thanks > > > > Owen. > > > > > > -- > > 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 > > > > > > > -- > 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 >