php vs asp

[trinitybrown]

Which is better and why?

1. PHP
2. Asp.NET

post your answers with reasons




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[seopaul]

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[Rebentrost]

I don't think one is better than the other. I would use whichever you know best. If you don't know either, then I would start with PHP.

 

[eugen]

I'm placing my bet on PHP. Worked with both PHP and ASP, or even with JSP.

 

[BlueBoden]

I don't have much experience in .NET, but you can't put it up like that. Both are perfectly capable of getting the job done, i wouldn't say one is better then the other.

However, PHP is FREE, and supported on most servers. If you consider which of them to learn, then don't limit yourself to one language.

Even though i mainly work with php, i also answer on .NET related questions when i have time.

 

[daani]

Hi

Here is a summary: If you are choosing which technology to use to build an application, use .NET. You will get more bang for the buck. With the same effort you will be able to build a much more rich user interface.

My Disclaimer: Keep in mind there are a lot of great libraries and tools for PHP which I never got to use, I just had a simple PSPad text editor and my handy PHP web site. I really wanted some “Intellisense” style code completion but I could not get it to work with PHP since I couldn’t find a decent IDE (i.e. editor)

However, it all depends on your requirements. For example, if you are selling something that most of your customers will be on a shared linux hosting environment, then why would you use .NET ? A good example is the software Clipshare, which is a clone of Youtube. The sites purchasing this product are mainly shared hosting customers who have PHP but not .NET. And Mono (.NET port on Linux) is not yet stable or popular enough to use.

I did some PHP programming before I started doing .NET fulltime. Before then I couldn’t say much about it, but after working with .NET for a few years now, I have much to say.
.NET does a very good job in handling the whole life cycle. With PHP you have to do it manually. For example, there is no such concept of “Postback” with PHP. This is such a basic thing that you can easily check with .NET to see if the page has been submitted and what button was pressed. For example if your “btnSubmit” was pressed, it will call btnSubmit_Click. With PHP, you have to do this manually. Not to mention how mish mashed your PHP page can be in terms of mixed code and style/HTML elements.

How about caching? I wanted to implement caching with PHP and I had a fun time, I had to check if the cached output file existed, and then if so, then check how old it is, and so on… Yeah okay again maybe there are some nice components already done for this, but I didn’t have to look very hard to do it with .NET, I simply added a CacheDependency on an XML file (or whatever the case was), and BOOM! It regenerated the file whenever necessary.

How about reusable components? With .NET you can create ASCX (Custom Controls) that you can place within a page that expose certain properties and the control itself maintains its state, can have buttons, etc, etc.

How about master pages (i.e. templates) in .NET? Again, super cool reusability! You can create pages with repeatable parts, with headers, footers, all sorts of fun stuff.

I can go on and on… but in general, the more I use .NET, the more impressed I am with it. However, what makes it not-so-practical is how expensive Windows Server hosting is. In summary .NET kicks butt!