Thread: PHP vs. ASP.NET

Comparison between ASP and PHP

Article compares and differentiates ASP and PHP concerning speed, price, cost and cross platform compatablily.

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http://www.phpbuddy.com/sub_articles.php?other_articles=9

I prefer PHP.


also keep in mind ASP and ASP.net are two different languages and hence have different ways of working.

ASP is fast at work where as what ever you wrote above is true for ASP.NET and not classic ASP.

The original ASP (called Classic ASP) was the forerunner for PHP. The languages are similar in many ways. ASP was the top server-side language in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It was very easy to learn, but has been abandoned by Microsoft who would prefer that everyone focus on ASP.NET. The problems with ASP.NET is that it is much more complicated and locks you into a Microsoft server environment.

PHP is much easier to learn than ASP.NET and it is less expensive to maintain PHP web sites.

Originally Posted by mega

Comparison between ASP and PHP

Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft's scripting technology for
displaying dynamic web pages, ASP programmes mostly use VBScript,
JScript. PHP on the other hand PHP is the open source alternative to
ASP that runs on multiple operating systems, incuding Linux, Windows
solaris and other OS.
Speed PHP is relatively much more faster and stable than ASP, ASP
is built on a COM-based architecture so when ever a program tries to
connect to a database or he calls a COM object there is an overhead on
the server, All this COM overhead adds up and slows things down. Under PHP, everything runs in PHP's memory
space. This means that PHP code will run faster because there is no
overhead of communicating with different COM objects in different
processes. Again ASP is slower and more memory intensive applications
than PHP's model because each ASP language compiler runs in its own
process.
Price
PHP installtions are definetly cheaper to install, PHP runs great on
Linux which is free, on the other hand ASP runs on the IIS Server
(Internet Information Server) which need's Windows N.T/2000/2003
Servers.
Apart from that ASP mostly uses MS-SQL Server as the back end which
again is expensive, Where as PHP programmes mostly use MySQL which is
again FREE!

A lot of myths about ASP in your thread

PHP is not faster than ASP.

ASP do not mostly use MS-SQL

You forgot to say that many programs or modules do not work with PHP

You can even have Apache mod_rewrite compatible URL rewriter for Microsoft IIS

I am a big fan of PHP.

PHP versus ASP.NET – Windows versus Linux – Who’s the fastest ?

On the web, PHP is much bigger, and so much easier to find developers, scripts and code. That is why I chose it.

asp.net is proprietary, php is open source. thats enough for me!

All claiming ASP.net to be proprietary and PHP to be open source.


what would you say when we introduce Mono to the equation.

Mono (software) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I would say Proprietary software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; where there a quite a few disadvantages to using propriety software

Originally Posted by anantshri

All claiming ASP.net to be proprietary and PHP to be open source.


what would you say when we introduce Mono to the equation.

Mono (software) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia