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Genteel Beaux
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Are there any current ASP/former ASP programmers here?

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I am currently an ASP programmer. I am totally new to PHP. I am looking at it because of the prices of the hosting sites that support it. They are so much cheaper than ASP hosting sites from what I saw. I have already installed the PHP thing on my computer, but currently still haven't figured out how to view my php files in my browser. But that is not my question right now. For you ASP programmers, do you feel it was a huge learning curve moving to PHP?

Any helpful comments will be appreciated.
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Not really, but I have been programming for 15+ years in C and C++.
I find PHP easier and more friendly than ASP, which basically stinks.
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Did you program mostly in a Microsoft environment? I find implementing PHP with IIS 5.0 kind of difficult. Since I don't have the money or time to install Linux or Unix on my machine, I have to stick with Windows XP Professional.
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Genteel Beaux wrote:Did you program mostly in a Microsoft environment? I find implementing PHP with IIS 5.0 kind of difficult. Since I don't have the money or time to install Linux or Unix on my machine, I have to stick with Windows XP Professional.
I have, and it wasn't too hard in my opinion.. You lose out of a little bit of features, but you learn to get around them.
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I am hyped! I actually got it to work. Now it time to get down to business. MySQL is next.
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I was doing ASP for about 7 months before I found PHP, I haven't coded another ASP line since.
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Same deal as JPlush76.

I use to use ASP to connect to an Access database because thats where all my data was. A friend told me about a free host, http://www.brinkster.com. Its a little slow because its mainly used for developing before paying for a quick, reliable service. The biggest problem I found, was having to learn two languages, ASP and VBScript.

Coming from a C++ background, PHP was a doddle, maybe ASP taught me some basics, like reading address line parameters, but PHP is closer to a programming language than ASP.

I used ASP with IIS 4 on Win98 with no problems. Then I graduated to PHP and finally Apache.

I still like the visual tools, and prefer Access to MySQL through ODBC, than phpMyAdmin.

I guess its really a case of taking it one step at a time, getting Apache to work, then PHP, then MySQL.
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