Re: PHP Vs ASP

Owen, PHP knocks spots off ASP in both performance and speed of development. I don't know why, but PHP just seems more user friendly. I also don't seem to get the problems I used to get when developing ASP. The bottom line is choosing a development platform will depend on what you want to do with it. If you want to use COM and Distributed Transactions use ASP other wise PHP is the choice of a new generation (where have I heard that before?) Andy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Owen Lewis" <owen@pinnacle.net.uk> To: "Andy Woolley" <andy@milonic.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 10:20 AM Subject: 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 ÜõSç > > çZ0è?ów³Â?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 > > > > > -- > 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 > >