PHP versus ASP?
 

PHP all the way
advantages: i know how to use it

ASP: ive never really used it
=D

Since ~60-70%% of the web's being served by apache, I'll continue sticking with PHP and open source like languages.

I'm sure you can run .NET / asp on apache, but why would anyone want to do that?

Advantages of ASP and other .NET products over PHP:

- Development time tends to be faster
- Easy communication w/ desktop apps build in .NET

Advantages PHP over ASP:

- More PHP Developers Worldwide
- Lower costs involved (open source)
- The server environment it runs on is more stable
- The language itself is more stable (When coded correctly)

Final Conclusion:

- Database driven apps that are only web-based should be built in PHP or Rails or CGI. (My preference being PHP & Rails. But CGI still has a little life left in her. Rails is blazing fast btw but coders for it are expensive and hard to find).

- Online apps that have a desktop app component should explore using ASP and the .NET line of products.


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All accurate. I would throw Python in the mix too, using a framework like Django (http://django-project.com). Rails like features, but with Python in the background.. a very mature language with a huge community of developers, much more than Ruby. That might change if Rails momentum continues, or it may already have. Django/Python doesnt suffer the same deployment/server setup and speed issues that currently plague Rails, IMHO. It's apache integration is extremely mature, tried and true.

Back to the original post.. I would stick to using open source tools. Its really a no brainer, unless you have some specific requirement that only proprietary software can fill.

Agreed on Python. We pretty much exclusively use PHP for database driven processes at Bluewire :thumbsup

IMO unless you've got a boardroom full of directors to impress, there is no reason to choose ASP over an open source solution.

The one thing ASP has going for it is easy integration with other .NET stuff, as posted earlier.

Well, let me put my view on it this way...

When i worked full time for a company locally here, I used to take notes and write up documents in MS Word. That shit crashed on me so much, i eventually got so fed up i started using paper instead. Paper doesn't crash.

If i can't trust Microsoft with a simple task like storing a to-do list for the day, how can i trust it with my work?

i started learning C# and im switching all my PHP apps to it. I love everything about it. SQL Server blows mysql out of the water too.

BTW, php works w/ Mono, the open source implementation of .NET. You can easily hook php or python into Mono apps, and typical .NET apps should work with Mono as well.

I've used both but if I have a choice it has to be PHP.

Am I a geek if I say ruby & rails gives me wood, yet whenever I hear, read or say "ruby on rails" I lose my wood?

I fucking love that framework, but I can't stand the moniker they gave it.