Asp And Php?
StormLiong
Join Date: 2002-12-27 Member: 11569Members
Join Date: 2002-12-27 Member: 11569Members
<div class="IPBDescription">web languages</div> Can anyone tell me what is so great about ASP compared to PHP and vice versa?
Would I be right to say that ASP is old technology while PHP is newer and better?
It is basically because I am currently deciding to move to a new web server. Unfortunately one of the sub-user of the server demands that the new web server must support ASP. Fair enough but I think he also wanted the M$ Access capabilties that ASP supports. Now I am planning to move to a cheaper (and better) Linux hosting solution and I don't think Linux does support Access Databases.
Still I am currently on the verge of telling all the sub-users that we are dropping ASP, go for PHP instead. Any thoughts?
Thanks
Would I be right to say that ASP is old technology while PHP is newer and better?
It is basically because I am currently deciding to move to a new web server. Unfortunately one of the sub-user of the server demands that the new web server must support ASP. Fair enough but I think he also wanted the M$ Access capabilties that ASP supports. Now I am planning to move to a cheaper (and better) Linux hosting solution and I don't think Linux does support Access Databases.
Still I am currently on the verge of telling all the sub-users that we are dropping ASP, go for PHP instead. Any thoughts?
Thanks
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JSP isn't bad either depending on what you need to do. If I was writing like.. banking software or something like that, I'd go w/ JSP over PHP probably, at least for the core functionality (i.e. not the UI)
And for a non-biased, purely performance point of view:
Access databases are utter crap. It will waste gobs of your servers resources with no real benefit at all. Chances are the person wants an access database because that's all they know. Hell I'd run MS SQL server before I ran an Access database for a web site. (And I'd stuff a rabid badger down my pants before I used MS SQL server :P)
Are these paying customers? And if so, how much leverage do they have over the wants/needs of other customers? If they aren't paying, I say screw em.
EDIT: And has seven legs?
People actually <i>work for free?!</i>
:P
Well my server host the university student union's site and the sites of all its clubs & socities. So the sub-users are these clubs & societies. So they arent really paying, so i am also tempted to just say "screw em". Well if thats what management tells me.
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Thats my thoughts exactly, except that nearly 3/4 of my sub-users still stick to using ACCESS for some stupid reason. My only reasoning is because its cos its easy to them and the M$ Access is avaialble in the uni comp labs.
But it also boggles me at times that sometimes i see really big corporate sites using ASP as their main scripting language. So ASP has gots to have some kind of benefit hasn't it?
:P