Php & Asp

[Aymen++]

what is the difference between the asp & php?
why we use php to program the forums not the asp?

[Nightfire]

ASP = Owned and controlled by Microsoft
PHP = Open source and owned by someone :p No idea who

ASP runs on Microsoft servers, expensive to learn, expensive to run, ready made programs can be expensive.

PHP runs on Microsoft or unix servers, free to learn, can be run cheaply, many many programs are free, more secure (from what I've read).

PHP is easier and quicker to learn I think than ASP, as it's based from the C (or C++) language.

ASP and PHP can both do the same things, but both have different ways of doing it. I think they're both as powerful as eachother, never really tested them out or known anyone to test them out against each other either.

[mordred]

aymen, I think this question has been discussed at length already far too many times. So Google might provide you with a lot of possible answers.

Here's one comparison, although it's more than two years old, so the information might not be up to date:
http://php.weblogs.com/php_vs_asp

A reason why many forum software is written in PHP might be that PHP is available on many hosts for a low price. So if you want your forum to be distributed widely, this is a factor to consider.

[Aymen++]

PHP = Open source and owned by someone No idea who

what is meaning of Open source?

[ionsurge]

Originally posted by Nightfire
PHP = Open source and owned by someone :p No idea who


php is the creation of Zend (http://www.zend.com) - the php company


Have a look here for more information:

http://www.zend.com/corporate_profile.php


Oh and by what I have heard, php v5 will or should be more powerful than asp.


:thumbsup:

[scroots]

open source means that the sourcecode for the stuff is available. Microsoft products aren't open source as you cannot accuire the sourcecode legally.


scroots

[firepages]

Originally posted by ionsurge
php is the creation of Zend (http://www.zend.com) - the php company


PHP was the creation of Rasmus Lerdorf who created it to help with simple Forms Processing , Zend came along later created by 2 of the lead PHP developers and helped point it in its current direction, Rasmus himself in interviews always seems unphased by what his creation became and is still a big contributor to major parts of the codebase.