ASP or PHP????

[Guest]

Which is more prevalent?

Which is easier to learn?

Which has more code snippets available?

I'm trying to figure out which one I should choose to use in my form mail pages.  Specifically, I'd like to have a form that a visitor completes and it would send the info to either in a pdf form or to a database.

I hope I am explaining this well enough for you all to understand. 

[DwFAQ]

Apples or Oranges????

[Guest]

Please excuse my ignorance!

Let me rephrase...

Using DW CS4... which one, ASP/PHP, is better (ie, more resources) to work with in DW?

[DwFAQ]

The one that is better for you is the one that is easier for you to work with. Look here

Apples and oranges" refers to the idiom "comparing apples and oranges", which indicates that two items or groups of items cannot be validly compared. The idiom evokes the apparent differences between items which are popularly thought to be incomparable or incommensurable, such as apples and oranges. The idiom may also be used to indicate that a false analogyhas been made between two items, such as where an "apple" is faulted for not being a good "orange". Conversely, where the comparison or analogy is valid, the idiom will usually take the form "comparing apples with apples".

[Lawrence_Cramer]

Most definitely PHP.... Why...

ASP is actually quite a good language, and is supported by every Windows server and is as easy - maybe a little easier to learn initially than PHP, so why would I say "definitely PHP?"  Because Microsoft officially pulled the plug on ASP years ago, and they have refused to release the language to the open source community, so therefore it's dying.  Because of the huge legacy app base and development community out there ASP will continue for a long time, but no further updates, improvements, of fixes are being released for it. The web is a moving target and ANY language that doesn't move with it is pretty much doomed.  ASP will eventually die off.

So, if you are going to learn a new language you certanly would not want to put your efforts into one that is dieing.  For your long term benefit, definetly go with PHP.

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[jon8]

PHP for many reasons.  Better community, more open source code, ongoing support and advancement, and an extremely inexpensive platform to develop for among the most obvious.  These days, the decisions are between VB.NET/C#.NET versus PHP.