Why PHP ?

[lovelove]

Why PHP it's better then ASP and even the new ASP.NET?

[W3bbo]

Why PHP it's better then ASP and even the new ASP.NET?

Not nessacerily

PHP4 and 5 are superior to ASP in every way possible... cross-platform ability, speed, sercurity, and to the novice user... "ease of use".

However, there are debates as to whether PHP5 is better than, equal to, or less than ASP.NET.

But for the RAD of web-applications, ASP.NET comes out on top, and is often faster (thanks to Chaching support, compiling, and other things)

However, the main issue is still security... granted, IIS6 on WS2K3 can be more secure than Apache on RedHat (or so they say...) IIS still has lots of security holes

The best way to run IIS is behind Apache on Slackware, IMO.... that way you get full functionality without any (well maybe one or two miliseconds worth of lag between the two ervers) loss in performance or security

[Danii]

I havn't been programming with asp.net but i doubt that they got as many functions as php. Functions that you might need to code your own in other languages. Specially when it comes to strings and arrays. There's plenty of function that makes life much easier for you as a webdeveloper.