PHP is much more common than ASP, although ASP is the runner-up.
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.
No
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.
If you're referring to Answers.com, it's built using PHP as a backend.
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.
Common languages for webpages are: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, ASP and ColdFusion is becoming increasingly popular.
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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
1. Cost No windows license required - run it on your Linux server. Technically you don't have to buy an IDE to code ASP, however most people do. PHP editors ideally are just a text editor with syntax highlighting, however with eclipse you can still have a free, fully featured IDE for PHP. 2. Resources Apache/PHP uses dramatically less resources than IIS/ASP - so you could get away with cheaper /older hardware. Works great with Linux. 3. Robustness/Reliability Generally speaking Apache/PHP is significantly more stable than IIS/ASP, so you will have generally better uptime. 4. Documentation/Standards Not sure how ASP is, however PHP.net has great documentation for hard-core developers, all the way down to the I just started today developers.
Nope, there are many other web languages you could use to create a game site such as ASP, ruby, Perl and many more.
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.