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PHP and ASP.NET
PHP and ASP.NET both are the languages of the modern age and are developed to ease writing the Web applications. Among the entire host of Web based programming languages, PHP and ASP.NET both have made their separate identities based on their developer base and advantages they offer. Web Studio, Canada presents you a comparative discussion about both of these languages. This comparison will help you choose your desired Web technology for your future Web projects.
PHP
PHP (HyperText PreProcessor) is an interpreted language that is used to server side scripting and powers many of the huge and popular Web applications. Development of PHP has been supported by large developer communities who continuously keep contributing to the improvement and development of PHP and keep PHP as their preferred choice for Web application development. PHP being an open source language, has been accounting for several applications that are available for free. These applications are being used quite commonly by the most popular organizations on earth. Being open source gives a developer power to unleash his own creativity and diligence to contribute to the development of PHP for the benefit of all.At the same time, PHP has continuously being documented very well. You may find a very easy to navigate rich source of information at the PHP.net Website. We at Web Studio, Canada, are always ready to take up the responsibility of Web development in PHP to offer you the unlimited solutions in the field of Web.
ASP.NET
ASP.NET is a Web development framework developed and marketed by Microsoft. This is based on other members of the .NET family, such as C# or VB.NET. Also, ASP.NET is built on the CLR (Common Language Runtime) of the .NET framework. This particular feature allows the .NET developers to write their ASP.NET code in other .NET family languages. However, as opposed to the building regime of languages that are open source, such as Ruby, PHP, or Java, ASP.NET remains a proprietary product of Microsoft. ASP.NET is a well documented and robust framework that eases the building of dynamic Websites and Web applications. Web Studio's expertise with ASP.NET is always at your service when you require Web solutions built using ASP.NET and similar technologies to meet your needs.
Here are the following features of general programming languages on which we have compared both of these languages:
Ease of Learning: To the most of the developers scripting in PHP is easier to learn than its counterpart, ASP.NET. Since ASP.NET is a proprietary product of Microsoft and is always updated with version, continuously learning to keep oneself updated all the time is very much required.
Backward Compatibility: This generally depends on the kind of upgrades made in the next versions of a programming language. In ASP.NET things have been changing rather rigorously; even the syntax have been changing which is why it makes the programs developed using ASP.NET less backward compatible than the ones written in PHP.
Strong Typing: ASP.NET is the stronger typed language than PHP. This feature of the programming language that is generally not a must-have, but is helpful reducing the number of errors resulted due to wrong type usages.
Garbage Collection: ASP.NET is better than PHP when it comes to the garbage collection feature. It is better for the circumstances where the memory leakage and similar problems are likely. In the programming languages like PHP, this is achieved by using constructors and destructors effectively.
Documentation and community support: ASP.NET and PHP, both have rich documentation available on Internet. The MSDN (Microsoft Developers Network) library has all the information whereas the www.php.net website hosts a rich documentation for all the things related to PHP. Although the online documentation is available for both, it is generally believed that the MSDN library is more difficult to navigate and lacks in appropriate source code examples than the online documentation available for PHP
Database compatibility: The current version of PHP (PHP 5) is compatible with MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Sybase, MSSQL Server and many other databases and so is the current version of ASP.NET. However, ASP.NET is more biased towards Microsoft's own products, such as MS ACCESS and MSSQL Server as the preferred choices. This has resulted in ASP.NET's reduced compatibility with most of the databases from other vendors.
Availability of Open Source software: PHP clearly has ample open source software available due to its own open source nature. Developers around the world have been contributing their own developed software using PHP back to the open source and many big organizations are using these open source applications developed in PHP. At the same time, ASP.NET is not an open source language. This is why not many open source applications are available on Internet for public use.
Compatibility with software platforms: PHP is capable of running on a variety of software platforms, such as Linux, Windows, Solaris and Unix while ASP.NET is natively supported by various flavors of Windows operating system. Also, PHP is supported by many Web servers, such as Apache, Lighttpd, Resin, IIS etc. whereas ASP.NET is well supported by IIS.
Cost: PHP is an open source language while ASP.NET is a product of Microsoft. That's why developing an entire application becomes costlier using ASP.NET due to the following factors:
- Availability of technical expertise easily with PHP
- Ample open source software and documentation available for PHP
- Support for PHP offered by various free platforms and Web servers
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