43 replies to this topic

[k_nitin_r]

Between ASP and PHP, I would choose PHP because ASP is based on Visual Basic 6 and is considered legacy technology. However, given the choice between PHP and ASP.NET, I would choose ASP.NET for scalability and PHP for low cost. ASP.NET is pretty easy to work with because of the Visual Studio IDE and you can create Windows Services to achieve persistent state information and caching between separate user requests. ASP.NET contractors and component developers are easy to find and several Microsoft backed open source projects are around to build upon, though they aren't as many as you would find with an open source technology.

PHP is quite popular in the open source community and you can find IDEs and open source projects to build upon. If you are looking out for an IDE for PHP development, Eclipse and NetBeans are free as well as open source and NuSphere PhpEd is a pretty good commercial IDE. Zend provides an Eclipse based IDE for PHP development too. All of these IDEs provided source control support for SubVersion repositories and you can build or procure plugins for the IDEs to provide added functionality. If you are looking for a web hosting service, you can find services for as cheap as $3 per month, and perhaps even cheaper if you go around bargain hunting.

[Jwhiz]

I am going with php as I haven't yet used asp and php and from what alot of people have said php is more popular I feel will have alot more support therefore making it alot easier than asp, oh well off to go look into asp

[steveo5362007]

I personally like asp since i've had more experience using it however the general consensus seems to be php, especially if you have no background in web programming.

[moon55]

my vote goes for php for sure