Friday, January 6, 2012

Week 9: ASP Vs PHP


Summarize the difference between ASP and PHP in a from of table such as following:

ASP
(Activity server pages)
Vs
PHP
(Hypertext preprocessor)
Internet Information Server (IIS)
Server
Linux or Unix Server
Need to purchase Windows with IIS installed on server.
ASP requires initial cost and ongoing cost for maintenance and debugging. ASP libraries will come with a price tag.
Terms of Price
PHP is free it only require running on a Linux Server which is free.
ASP developers is limited
Developer community
PHP developers have contributed to a variety of open source projects.
PHP has a fairly large developer community that is active in reporting bugs and creating additional PHP libraries.
Need to purchase MS-SQL which  is a product of Microsoft
Database Connectivity
MySQL which is free.
ASP can only work with Window based platforms.
Platform compatibility
PHP programs can also run in  Windows, Solaris, Unix and Linux
ASP uses Visual Basic as base language.
Base Language
PHP uses C/C++ as base language and most syntax are similar to each other.
Need to buy additional tools to works with its program.
Costs
Most of the tools associated with open source software programe.
ASP runs slowly  due to ASP uses an overhead server
and is uses a COM based architecture,
Speed
PHP codes runs much quickly, it runs in own memory space

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