Help PHP vs ASP

@lemmor (30)
Philippines
January 15, 2007 1:06am CST
hi, what is the difference of PHP and ASP, and what is easiest to code
2 responses
• United States
4 Mar 07
PHP and ASP are both server side technology that is used for creating Dynamic web sites. The differences as far as I know and care to explain at the momment are: PHP is open source | ASP is a microsoft product PHP can run on virtually any webserver | ASP is designed to work primarly on windows servers running IIS PHP does NOT have strong OOP | ASP is based around using OOP PHP is used for many small companies and personal websites, but also in a corporate setting | ASP has only recently found its way into the small business/personal sector but has been used for a long time in large business and corporate structures. As far as which is easier to code, that is hard to say. PHP is based around the C language, which means that it is fairly simple and easy to understand, there aren't a lot of cryptic words or what not used to describe the functions. ASP on the other hand uses Visual Basic, or any other .NET langauge (which is virtually any thing you can think of). Visual basic is almost totaly plain English, there are very few special words to remember, and no real punctuation used when you code. I suppose the best thing to do is to play with both of them and see which one you perfer.
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@Serwas (40)
• Croatia (Hrvatska)
6 Mar 07
Well You got pretty good explanation.. Also my only coment is that there is NO EASY code... If you whant to make website easy use frontpage or some other program that allows you to copy/paste, insert etc.... Programing is not easy job. Not even if you know some language, it is never easy...