Thursday, 17 December 2009

php is Poor Man's Version of asp.net

So I'm asking for it now... however, php is a good poor man's version of the good but rather expensive asp.net.  Asp.net get's it's main benefit from being able to use c# as it's serverside code base.  C# has all the bells and whistles plus has the benefit of being Windows centric so good for hooking up to windows based databases and other data sources.  It is however pricey to host and develop if you use Windows server and Visual Studio.net.

Php has a slightly less modern scripting syntax but wins out in a couple of way compared to asp.net - price and hosting flexibility.  Php is free, the platforms it runs best on (e.g. all those Linux variants) is free.. and there are numerous free web apps using php as a base.  Poor Man's Heaven!
Posted by at 07:25

2 comments:

  1. Googling and seeing the title of the thread, I came in thinking this is going to be a trolling at PHP's address.

    Not so :-)
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  2. +1, even FOSS fanbois cannot deny asp.net's awesomeness with a fast, clean, powerful language like c# and all of the .net libraries which 'just work'.. and not to mention how great visual studio is.
    BUT, even so, php is still 'good enough' without the expense of visual studio and windows server licenses. I find it's perfect for web service backends to my ajax-rich frontends. EVERYBODY LOVES FREE :-)
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