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You can do so much more with PHP and there are more servers that support PHP coding. you can almost do anything with it. so if you are going to learn something! learn PHP!

Scorch wrote:There's actually been quite a lot of benchmarking tests on ASP.NET and PHP, which showes that PHP can be quite much faster then ASP.NET.

Thanks for the info. I'm not surprised, I just don't like zelots running around spewing out random stuff.

Scorch wrote:I've tried to get some information about this from the other part; ASP.NET's homepage, but I havn't found any sort of help, FAQ or manual there to help me with it.

I've found this to be a big problem with ASP and MS stuff in general. That poor excuse of a website they call MSDN is basically all they have and there's a lot of stuff on there that's missing or even straight out wrong. Apart from that there are a few 'communities' that have documentation on stuff, but that's even more patchy. Quite often the best info is from PHP people talking about ASP.

Scorch wrote:Still ASP.NET is commercial, and yes, you can use ASP.NET on other OS's if you work a little, should have said that instead. ASP.NET is Windows-only by default if you don't use, for example, mod_mono, which will make ASP.NET run on Apache. But if you do, you won't get any support from M$, since they only give support to those who use ASP.NET with IIS.

And as far as I know, ASP.NET is still not OpenSource, which PHP is.

In this case I was comparing PHP with the Mono. As for PHP, you won't get any support from Zend unless you pay them money. But you do have a point. The PHP community is much better developed, and Mono has been treated quite badly by Microsoft.

I've always gone with php, mostly because asp is produced by microsoft, and php comes standard with a debian server

I've also found that it's easier to code, and much more straight forward. I can take apart a php script easily, while with asp, i just give up. i don't even know, i'm always turned off when i lay eyes on the code. also, php.net is sexy, am i right? simple as pie. eating it, not baking it.

PHP all the way, it's multiplatform, and for ASP i think u need a Windows servers, plus i always use PHP , i think it's a little more secure..