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Can i ask the difference between VB and PHP???
Visual Basic 6.0 or 8.0 and PHP
They say you need to buy VB to sell systems you created while PHP is a free software?
I need to know this because i used PHP language instead of the regular VB which the school is using in creating a local system. I just need to know some facts to throw at the panel/judges who will judge my system and compare it to Visual Basic.
Thank you very much to those who will read and reply.
By VB you mean VB.NET right? I shudder to think of a school teaching BASIC syntax these days.
I would recommend you to use PHP, but I'm also biased. ASP.NET is not open source and VB.NET is a BASIC syntax so if you want to learn a different programming language in the future, it might be hard to migrate. But if you learn PHP, you can easily migrate to C, C++, Java etc.
PHP is 100% free, it's constantly updated, you have a great choice of IDE's (like free Netbeans, etc.), you have easy MySQL intergration etc.
I've also noticed the differences in the online learning resources for the languages. PHP has a huge amount of tutorials (especially free ones) out there, where as VB.NET only has a few.
PHP is by far more widely used across the industry. I would also assume that PHP is more optimized, but I don't know for sure as I've never seriously looked at VB.NET for anything. Perhaps there are some comparison benchmarks out there.