php pros and cons

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sane993
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php pros and cons

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OKay this topic could create some flames seeing this a php forum. But I see some sites written in ASP and was talking to a more experienced programmer the other day and he prefers ASP. I started learning ASP for a few days and got over it and quickly read the a tutorial on PHP and thought it was much better. So what advantages does ASP actually have PHP? Or vice-versa.

*just wondering why people use ASP as IMO PHP as a whole lot better*
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Post by twigletmac »

Well as long as you know you're going to get a fairly biased bunch of answers, hopefully there will be no flames as this question has come up before and didn't cause problems then.

You may want to have a look at some of the following:
viewtopic.php?t=3643&highlight=asp
viewtopic.php?t=4316&highlight=asp
viewtopic.php?t=4160&highlight=asp
viewtopic.php?t=2305&highlight=asp
viewtopic.php?t=2104&highlight=asp

http://php.weblogs.com/php_vs_asp

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Post by Stoker »

The only negative part about PHP is that it is so easy to learn and use that there are a lot of people creating dangerously insecure scripts :)
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Post by JPlush76 »

ask all the programmers in here who felt a sigh of relief to find out this weekends virus attack affected MS SQL which most ASP developers connect to.

I gave a chuckle knowing the company that laid me off a year ago was calling their IT manager to come in and fix the problem :)
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