If you're referring to Answers.com, it's built using PHP as a backend.
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PHP code runs faster than ASP. ASP is built on COM based architecture, which is an overhead for the server whereas PHP code runs in its own memory space.
If the Microsoft system is coded in PHP then technically anything is possible it's all a matter of how much work. If however it is not and the Microsoft is coded in something like ASP, then the integration can only come from using $get, $post functions between pages and then a change to one of the systems as to the database links.
PHP is much more common than ASP, although ASP is the runner-up.
HTML, JAVASCRIPT, ASP, and PHP are good ones. There is also VbScript and jQuery. They are all coded in Notepad.
considering the fact that PHP is open source and does not depend on a licensed operating system like ASP (windows), i'd say PHP is better suited if you want to learn it. although (of course) ASP has its up- and downsides, as PHP has.
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There are lots of benefits of using PHP over ASP Hosting is cheap and as I can think off 1. Because of free OS available that is Linux 2. Web server is free 3. Database is free (MySQL) and gels with it very well 4. As OS is Linux you don't pay any anti virus cost 5. Language is easy to learn and lots of resources available
ASP pages are a Microsoft technology. To convert them to run under Unix you could install a package in Apache that understands ASP, or you could rewrite it so that it uses something more generic, such as Perl, PHP, or Python.
bash/sh: chmod -rw test.file php: fopen('test.file', 'r') - return false (and E_WARNING)
Nearly all websites have some sort of PHP backend, although a large number use other scripts as well -- Perl, Python, ASP, CGI.
An HTML Converter is a program that will take your HTML files and modify them to be able to be used with PHP, Javascript or ASP.