moving ASP board to PHP
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Well ... this is a little more complicated than just moving from ASP to PHP. They are two different programming languages, usually dealing with two different databases (ASP = MSSQL; PHP = MySQL).
Now actually migrating data from MSSQL to MySQL is not terribly difficult if you are familiar with databases as they are quite similar. (They may have different logic in the Stored Procedures, and how your webs connect to the databases to pull information.)
ASP and PHP can get you the same end result, but the way they go about everything is pretty different.
This would not necessarily be a fun project to undertake in my eyes. The benefits to PHP/MySQL is that most hosting companies provide it, as it's cheap compared to ASP/MSSQL (as Microsoft charges servers by processesors, haha) - but in terms of how much it may cost to do this transition, it may not be worth it.
It's a simple idea in theory, when you are looking at it from an end-user perspective who does not deal in code, or databases - but it's quite a task for sure.