I call ASP the poor man's GGI programming. The latest buzz word is "N-Tier"
which allows users to connect to an application running on a server using a
very thin client (even just a browser). If you have NT running IIS then you
have the ability to run ASP. Basically you can have your web pages retrieve
and add data to an ODBC connected database with ease. You program the ASP
pages with VB Script. For organizations running NT it is a very good
solution. If you are running a LINUX box you can purchase ASP support from
ChiliSoft.
As we learned at our last CNHLUG meeting, PHP does basically the same thing
for LINUX that ASP does for NT.
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Kettmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 11:07 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Advanced Web Page Questions.
I'm rather confused by the various advanced or "active" web page
methods. Let's see, there's CGI, Perl, Visual Basic Scripts,
JavaScripts and Java, ASP (Active Server Pages), PHP and XML. I'm sure
I've forgotten some. Now these are all just scripting languages,
right? Clearly there are differences. Some are interpretive (Basic,
JavaScript-? (or is it run from the JVM?). I assume that ASP and PHP,
which I believe are server side implementations, require a special code
server to which they interface (meaning they interface a daemon which
provides their functionality).
Is this right, or am I all wet?
What is the difference between PHP and ASP?
I thought ASP was an M$ thing, is it or is it open?
I don't need to code in any of these but I would like to know where they
all fit. Why are there so many? Is the number of ?languages?
increasing or decreasing? Which are the most used?
I know I've asked a lot of questions and I appreciate any assistance.
Thank You, GGK
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