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NineNine · 03-21-2003, 07:43 AM

Since I've been an ASP programmer since day 1, I can sum it up by saying that ASP and PHP are very similar. ASP came out first, then PHP copied it. They both do pretty much the same thing. A difference is that ASP, while it does run very fast, is also designed to be kind of a "glue" scripting langauge to tie together web servers and COM objects. I'm not sure how easy it is to handle other programs/dlls/out-of-process executables with PHP. The "best" way to use ASP isn't necessarily to drop DB connections straight into it, but to build a COM object (VB, C++, whatever), then use that as your heavy lifter. I actually prefer to put as much work as possible in the database, but that's just me. Still, ASP and PHP are *very* similar. Oh course, PHP is optimized to run on *nix machines, and ASP is optimized to run on NT/W2K machines. Performance wise, they can both be great, or they can both suck, depending on whether the programmer know what in the hell he's doing.

03-21-2003, 07:43 AM
NineNine So Fucking Banned Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 256	Since I've been an ASP programmer since day 1, I can sum it up by saying that ASP and PHP are very similar. ASP came out first, then PHP copied it. They both do pretty much the same thing. A difference is that ASP, while it does run very fast, is also designed to be kind of a "glue" scripting langauge to tie together web servers and COM objects. I'm not sure how easy it is to handle other programs/dlls/out-of-process executables with PHP. The "best" way to use ASP isn't necessarily to drop DB connections straight into it, but to build a COM object (VB, C++, whatever), then use that as your heavy lifter. I actually prefer to put as much work as possible in the database, but that's just me. Still, ASP and PHP are very similar. Oh course, PHP is optimized to run on *nix machines, and ASP is optimized to run on NT/W2K machines. Performance wise, they can both be great, or they can both suck, depending on whether the programmer know what in the hell he's doing.