ASP, PHP or JSP
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- pixelman
Hello,
Next year i must make a choice between ASP, PHP or JSP on my school what do I choose best and why?Thx
- ********0
depends on what your trying to do and what Servers you are going to be working with. I would go with either JSP or PHP. PHP works very well with Flash BTW.
- ********0
JSP you can work with Java Applets much more freely
- mitsu0
does cartwheels through thread w/ tape over mouth.
- Mick0
You should learn PHP (cause it's free and easy to experiement and has a good online community) but also learn ASP and .NET because that's where many of the BIG corporate jobs are that pay well. (yes I know there are exceptions, but generally speaking 80/20 rule)
- J_Treehorn0
If you learn one, you should be able to understand the others from studying yourself. VBscript and Javascript are somewhat similar in application.
- jgjh1510
What school is this?
- ********0
I would say learn ASP as well
- intoxicated0
PHP
- ********0
CFML ain't bad either
- unfittoprint0
Be Opensource friendly. Choose PHP+MySQL.
For all your 'backend activity'.
;-p
- REINVIGORATE0
They all have their advantages and disadvantages. However, If I had to choose between those and knowing what I know, I'd go PHP+MySQL all the way.
- ilmarine0
definitely PHP. works well with flash. both PHP and MySQL are free (so more server owners can afford them). and when you have learned your PHP well, using ASP scripts should not be a problem (well, writing them might be). anyway, the net is vast and infinite and you can find all the answers to your problems.
JSP, i think, is definitely a no go. it was pointed out that JSP is good for Java apps, but Java is dying out. flash is the way to go. if i remember correctly there was a link on slashdot a while ago to an essay that tried to find out which programming languages will survive and which will die. Java was one of those that were labeled "to be terminated".
- kinetic0
http://www.chrislea.com/2002/plo…
very nice article by the one and only chris lea
my personal choice - php and mysql - easy to use and fast. not too steep of a learning curve..if you've programmed in flash before or any other web scripting language for that matter php should be a snap
- mitsu0
"the net is vast and infinite"
thank you major kusanagi.
- pixelman0
jgjh151 it's Hogeschool Antwerpen in Belgium Location: Turnhout
Thanks fore the reactions!
- Danski0
I recommend PHP personally. You'll feel the love when you start bringing up web servers for free.
I'm stuck in coldfusion land right now, I need to jump to PHP as soon as possible.
- unknown0
if you want to work for someone else and make good money... ASP or ASP.NET
if you want to work for yourself and keep costs down to a minimum PHP / MySQL
you should learn both though, I did! I do ASP all day at work for the steady paycheck, and on freelance it's almost always PHP that the client wants, cause it's free.
- angelus350
I'm not very familiar with the specs of JSP. From my research, it's basically a server based Javaish language. At the roots, all the languages are the same, just different syntax. The thought process is always going to be similar.
ASP - A lot of people argue that PHP is free. Well, so is ASP once you have the web server loaded. It's built into IIS. You're not going to be paying any money for "ASP" itself. The operating system that it's included in is commercial (ie Windows Servers).
I tend to prefer ASP myself. Using VBScript as my scripting language, I can easily migrate my knowledge to application programming as well as web. I think that's a huge advantage. Microsoft is also very good about documentation.
PHP - Since the web server that would commonly run this is Linux, and it's open source, it will appear as a cheaper solution. Again, this depends on the server environment, because if the servers are NT based, you're going to using PHP for Windows which is still free, but so is ASP in this aspect so no real advantage.
I believe PHP, like most "underdogs" gains a lot popularity because it's not under the name like Microsoft.
In any case, it comes down to you. I don't believe that any of the languages are really better than one another. Just preference and environment.
Note: As far as working with Flash, XML is the best for data interpretation from the research I have done, and XML can be controlled with any server side scripting language.