I am a newbie to programming, ASP is easier to learn? I heard PHP was
At 04:48 PM 1/9/2002 +0100, Robert Klinkenberg wrote: >Well, I personally prefer PHP over ASP because better support from >webhosting companies, but ASP has some good points. >This is especially the case if you can setup the complete hosting >environment yourself and have some money to spend. > >First of all databases. PHP has support for a limited but interesting list >of databases, especially the support for mysql and postgres is handy for a >webserver. On the other hand, ASP has good support for most bussiness >servers (ORACLE MS SQL Server,....) with OLE-DB and a lot more databases >with ODBC. > >The development tools. Definately a win for ASP (with vb.net C# and C++ you >have a complete IDE and with Dreamweaver Ultradev you can pretty much point >and click. SO you can choose whatever tool you like. >PHP has very limited IDE's. > >Price. ASP solutions are mostly build with Windows 2000 Server and MS SQL >Server or Oracle and an expensive IDE. So it's pretty expensive to build. >PHP is mostly used with Linux, Apache and MySQL and is a lot cheaper (you >only need to buy the hardware and the software is virtually free) > >Programming language: This is off course a personal taste but with ASP >(.net) you can use VB/C++/C#. So if you are used to VB or C++ it's a bit >easier to start with. > >Modules. Both have a lot of free tools available. However I personally find >the PHP modules more usefull. (With the exception of the Crystal Report >generator in .net, pretty usable reports without a lot of work). > >It's a bit easier for a novice to get started with ASP as with PHP, and it's >pertty easy to make the project look good. > >So, if you have the cash and some inexperienced programmers working for you >ASP is the save bet. If you have a small company, are a student, depend on >webhosting or are a pretty experienced programmer, PHP might be a better >choose. > >Robert Klinkenberg > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
