Help me decide please...

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PoppaRex
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Help me decide please...

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I have a website that was written years ago (asp) that i need to revamp. I thought about .net but i am tired of the increased costs (hosting) and am thinking about Perl or PHP. The site doesn't do anything remarkable No heavy computing - straight enter some data and get data back form the DB. Should i look at perl or php? I have done some websites off and on for years, most comfortable with html and asp but i am teachable! The website has potential for resale, thinking of hosting it and selling access.

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Re: Help me decide please...

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I personally would use PHP. You can get the results you're after fairly quickly if you use a framework, and it may also be a little more similar to .NET depending on the framework. I prefer CakePHP, but Prado is supposedly modeled after .NET.
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I, too, recommend PHP. I don't use frameworks at all, at least in part because they remind me too much of .NET and the heavy load of additional learning required to accomplish the same objectives. Frameworks are great for productivity and high volume of output, but basic PHP is really easy to learn and can do everything that any framework can do (after all, they just encapsulate PHP) and require no additional libraries or learning. Yes, your scripts will be longer and perhaps take a little longer to write, but if your output volume (scripts/month or something like that) is low and you just want to migrate away from ASP, my advice would be to just spend a few hours learning PHP. The web is full of online tutorials. I don't think there's any reason to consider Perl for today's web development.
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