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Php Recommended over ASP.net for Our Web Site Design?

Posted: Tue May 20, 2003 12:21 pm
by DDEVELLIS
We are an end-user building a website from the ground up. Web designers have recommended coding with php, HTML, and ASP.net. Which
program is best for security, updates, ecommerce, and interfacing with other programs. We provide web based videoconferencing with secure logins for our customers and their accounts. We are looking for a web designer that can help us build and integrate our site. Any information that can help us decide the proper choices with be appreciated. Thanks.
Dan :?:

Posted: Tue May 20, 2003 1:10 pm
by lostboy
ah, the age old question ms vs everything else, what to choose?

php has far fewer security updates and patches, is open source and very supported and user driven when adding new features

.Net is proprietary, unproven in security (after all it is MS :oops: ) and running on new framework...

both support interfaces with other programs, both can use COM (depending of course on OS, which is something not mentioned by you)
both allow fleixble coding and data access

but only php is completely platform independant, can run on *nix, Windows but .Net only runs on windows...

the real question is what is the OS?

Posted: Tue May 20, 2003 5:39 pm
by evilcoder
hehe, the real question lies around "Why would you even think about using an M$ program?"

Nah buddy, if your coding from ground up PHP is the way to go. ASP is probably a little harder to code then PHP and doesn't have any of the handy functions like:

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If ( $Something == "Hello" )
{
     include( "Hello.php" );
}
You can't include files on an If/Else statement in ASP. Go PHP!!!!

Posted: Wed May 21, 2003 1:48 am
by []InTeR[]

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if(file_exists($Something.".php") 
  include($Something."php");

Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 12:48 am
by fractalvibes
Most likely depends upon the platform you are targeting and the likelihood that it could change. I work with ASP every day, and about to plunge into .Net (work) yet love PHP and it's capabilities. You should ask the questions in a number of forums and then draw your conclusions. Should you go the PHP route, I think you will find this group very helpfull.

Best of Luck,

Phil Jackson

Posted: Fri May 30, 2003 3:58 am
by Gleeb
PHP, definatly, and that's both my quick geeky judgement against MS, and my considered opinion as a 'card carrying member' of the 'I hate bosses who change their mind' club.

Basically, it comes down to this.
GeekyGleeb wrote:It runs on my favourite OS!
BusinessGleeb wrote:It runs on whatever my boss decides it should run on
No matter how the situation changes, it's pretty damned easy to switch to whatever OS your mandate requires.

Posted: Fri May 30, 2003 10:01 am
by Swede78
I've been working on switching our small business website from ASP to PHP. The main reason that I'm doing this, is the database. With ASP, we were stuck with an Access database - very slow and difficult to make changes to! Or we could've paid $12,000 for an MS SQL license.

We decided to go with MySQL database - Free! I could not find anything about using ASP with MySQL. It may be possible, but finding documentation to do this seemed nearly impossible. PHP connects to MySQL easily, and from what I've read, several other types of databases too.

So, if the type of database you use is important, I'd definitely go with PHP. That's assuming you use one, but I can't imagine an ecommerce site not using one.

Posted: Fri May 30, 2003 2:33 pm
by fractalvibes
Yes, you can connect to MySql from ASP, I have done it before.

look here:
http://www.able-consulting.com/ADO_Conn.htm

For example connectionstrings for every DB imaginable with ASP/ADO

Hope this helps,

Phil Jackson