Asp? What is it?

[Eternity Hunter 0]

Can anyone explain to me what ASP is. I know it's a programming language sorta like PHP but it is better than PHP. Are there any pros or cons. Any help would be useful...

[whyme 0]

ASP is short for Active Server Pages, ASP is made by Microsoft's and it enables HTML pages to be dynamic and interactive by embedding scripts, ie either VBScript or JScript, Microsoft's alternative of JavaScript. I don't use ASP myself, so it's hard to note out the Pros and Cons, but, I find that ASP is harder to learn than PHP, and lacks the functionality that PHP provides, usually, ASP is used for large ecommerce scripts and rarely for small scripts, like in PHP. Here's some more info on ASP ->http://www.softwareprojects.com/resources/?notfound=yeshope this helps,-whyme

[xboxrulz 0]

I recommend you to use PHP as there are more software and hosts support PHP than ASP because there are more Linux servers out there. Also, PHP is a better programming language.xboxrulz

[Spectre 0]

ASP is effectively Microsoft's equivalent to PHP. It only operates on IIS (Microsoft's web server), and is generally easier to utilize than PHP; however, in my opinion (which is shared with many others), PHP is more powerful and worth any of the extra effort it may take in learning.

 

PHP and MySQL running on an Apache web server - all of which are free and open source - is about as good as it gets.

[tonic 0]

Yea if you want to use windows servers, you'll need to learn ASP. Its more convenient to use ASP in Windows enviroment because you dont really need to setup all the PHP, Apache servers etc... to test. But now days alot of good scripts are written in php like wordpress, forums etc...

[Inspiron 0]

and of course....since it's made by Mucrosoft.. ASP is not free and usually cos a bomb for individuals ...They are made for huge companies...PHP, MySQL, Apache on the other hand is free of charge...and more companies actually uses these free sources to save cost.. since they are as powerful...ASP is not better than PHP however.. Just that its convenient for implementing on a Windows Server... Microsoft products dude..

[imran 0]

PHP is a better programming language.

 

xboxrulz

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I dont think PHP is better programming language. I think both the technologies are almost same. You can do everything in ASP which is possible in PHP.

Choosing the platform depends upon the requirement. If you gonna have Windows server with SQL Server database then its not advisable to go for PHP at all.

On the other hand suppose if you gonna have MySql database then using ASP is foolishness.