Well, I personally prefer PHP over ASP because better support from webhosting companies, but ASP has some good points. This is especially the case if you can setup the complete hosting environment yourself and have some money to spend.
First of all databases. PHP has support for a limited but interesting list of databases, especially the support for mysql and postgres is handy for a webserver. On the other hand, ASP has good support for most bussiness servers (ORACLE MS SQL Server,....) with OLE-DB and a lot more databases with ODBC. The development tools. Definately a win for ASP (with vb.net C# and C++ you have a complete IDE and with Dreamweaver Ultradev you can pretty much point and click. SO you can choose whatever tool you like. PHP has very limited IDE's. Price. ASP solutions are mostly build with Windows 2000 Server and MS SQL Server or Oracle and an expensive IDE. So it's pretty expensive to build. PHP is mostly used with Linux, Apache and MySQL and is a lot cheaper (you only need to buy the hardware and the software is virtually free) Programming language: This is off course a personal taste but with ASP (.net) you can use VB/C++/C#. So if you are used to VB or C++ it's a bit easier to start with. Modules. Both have a lot of free tools available. However I personally find the PHP modules more usefull. (With the exception of the Crystal Report generator in .net, pretty usable reports without a lot of work). It's a bit easier for a novice to get started with ASP as with PHP, and it's pertty easy to make the project look good. So, if you have the cash and some inexperienced programmers working for you ASP is the save bet. If you have a small company, are a student, depend on webhosting or are a pretty experienced programmer, PHP might be a better choose. Robert Klinkenberg -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
