Expert: Srini Nagarajan - 9/25/2005

Question
Thank you for taking the time to review my question. I am wondering what the difference is between between PHP & ASP. I heard than PHP is more universal but ASP functions better. Is this true? Also, what are the other server side language alternatives? C? The reason I am asking is because I am in the process of buying an online dating script that is available in PHP or ASP. I am not sure which one to choose. Would appreciate any info.

Thank You!  

Answer
Hi

ASP is Microsoft technology for handling dynamic web pages like calling data from database and updating data into database etc..., ASP programmes mostly use VBScript and JScript.

PHP on the other hand PHP is the open source alternative to ASP that runs on multiple operating systems, incuding Linux, Windows solaris and other operting system.

There are plenty of server side languages available like coldfusion, java, jsp, cgi, python etc...

Now ASP new version is called ASP.NET which got more powerful dynamic data handling functions...

check asp.net for more information

Happy Programming!

-Srini