After finish our silibus in flash, the next chapter is PHP and ASP. Nice!
Both ASP and PHP are languages used to build Dynamic Web sites that can interact with databases and exchange information. ASP (Active Server Pages) is from Microsoft and is used with IIS (Internet Information Server) that runs on Microsoft Servers. PHP stand for Hypertext Preprocessor runs on Unix and Linux servers and it also has an NT server version.
Terdapat perbezaan diantara PHP dan juga ASP :
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ASP
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PHP
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Cost
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To run ASP programs one needs IIS installed
on a Windows platform server, which is not free.
Even the connectivity of the database is
expensive in the case of ASP as MS-SQL is a product of Microsoft that needs
to be purchased.
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PHP programs run on Linux, which is free.
PHP generally uses MySQL, which is freely
available.
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Speed
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ASP is built on COM based architecture, which
is an overhead for the server
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PHP code runs faster than ASP
PHP code runs in its own memory space
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Platform Compatibility
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Windows platforms
ASP can run on a Linux platform with
ASP-Apache installed on the server
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PHP programs can run on various platforms
like Linux, Unix, Windows and Solaris
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Additional Costs
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ASP such features are not built in and some additional
components are required. Therefore an additional cost is incurred for such
components.
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Many of the tools used in PHP are free of
cost and since PHP is open source a lot of code can be found in open source
forums. PHP has inbuilt features like ftp, email from a web page or even
encryption mechanisms
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Base Language
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ASP on the other hand has a more Visual Basic
kind of syntax that again is closely related to only Microsoft products. So,
it depends on a person-to-person which language he or she is comfortable
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PHP is based on C++ language and the syntax
used in PHP is quite similar to C/C++. C/C++ is still considered the best
programming language by many programmers and people who love this language
would surely feel more comfortable with the syntax of PHP
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Database Connectivity
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ASP mainly uses MS-SQL.
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PHP, being extremely flexible, can connect to
various databases, the most popular being MySQL
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