Which one should you choose : ASP or PHP ?
Once building websites, ASP and PHP are incredibly popular languages. Both ASP and PHP are different languages used to make dynamic websites that can communicate with databases and exchange information. ASP (Active Machine Pages) is from MS and can be used with IIS (Internet Information Server) that runs on Microsoft Machines. PHP (Personal Home Pages) is from Rasmus Lerdorf, who formerly designed this parsing language which was later modified by different people. It runs on Unix and Linux machines and it also possesses an NT server version. There are countless dissimilarities between ASP and PHP, let us see: Cost: To run ASP programs one needs IIS attached to a Windows platform server, which is not free. PHP programs run on Apache, which is free. Even the connectivity of the database is expensive in the case of OR NET as MS-SQL is a product of Microsoft that needs to be purchased. PHP generally uses MySQL, which is freely available. Speed: Whenever we compare the speed ...