ASP.NET
If you program in ASP.NET you'll typically get too
responses from the other side. Either you're rich (or your company is)
or you're a Microsoft lover. While the name
comes from Microsoft's old ASP technology, they made a huge leap with
the .NET Framework, and the CLR allows you to use other languages for
back end processing: typically Visual Basic.NET or C#.
ASP.NET's strength lies in object oriented features, and it's
flexibility. Because of the CLR you can have C# programmers and VB.NET
programmers working on the same project, or switch languages half way
through and not have to rewrite all of your old classes. The .NET class
library is organized into inheritable classes based around particular
tasks, such as working with XML or image manipulation, so a lot of the
more common tasks have been already handled for you.
Visual
Studio .NET is a massive development IDE that (as long as your computer
is fast enough) will shave tons of time of your coding. It has built in
debugging along with IntelliSense, which allows for auto-completion of
methods and variables so you don't have to memorize everything.
On the down side, ASP.NET is expensive. One it uses tons more resources
on the web server so you'll require either better server or more servers
in the farm. Windows 2003 and Visual Studio .NET are pretty tough on
the pocket book as well. It's extremely rare for an ASP.NET app not to
be running on IIS. And if you pay attention to any of the bug reports,
you'll notice that Windows and IIS have had a bit of a history with
vulnerabilities being exploited.
PHP
PHP works in
combination of HTML to display dynamic elements on the page. PHP only
parses code within its delimiters, such as . Anything outside its
delimiters is sent directly to the output and not parsed by PHP.
PHP strength lies mostly in LAMP. The LAMP architecture has become
popular in the Web industry as a way of deploying inexpensive, reliable,
scalable, secure web applications.
PHP is commonly used as the P in this bundle alongside Linux, Apache
and MySQL. PHP can be used with a large number of relational database management
systems, runs on all of the most popular web servers and is available
for many different operating systems. This flexibility means that PHP
has a wide installation base across the Internet; over 18 million
Internet domains are currently hosted on servers with PHP installed.
With PHP 5 finally came exception handling and true OOP, but it still
lack namespacing to prevent class naming collisions. PHP's type checking
is very loose, potentially causing problems. Another drawback is that
variables in PHP are not really considered to have a type. Finally, for
some reason big corporations feel that if they're not paying for
something, then it's not worth buying. If that's you're company's
mentality, they just need to wake up and check out all the awesome free
software that's out there.
So Which Is Better?
We'll
I have my opinions and you may have yours as well. But in general, PHP
is cheap, secure, fast, and reliable, while ASP.NET has quicker
development time and is easier due to its class library system can
probably be maintained more easily. Both are great languages, and it's
up to you to make the decision.
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