Asp Php

[aqureshi]

Hi,

I have got web hosting with 34sp.com. My Web designer was asking me to see if they support dynamic content language like
ASP, PHP etc...are supported by the 34sp.com. I can see they support PHP4, but can't see ASP support. Does any one know if they support ASP.

Cheers

Asad

[damell]

No they don't as far as I'm aware. They support PHP and MySQL.

There's no need for both to be installed as they can both usually achieve the same results. Except PHP is far easier. :dork:

[jwoolley]

Originally posted by damell
No they don't as far as I'm aware. They support PHP and MySQL.

There's no need for both to be installed as they can both usually achieve the same results. Except PHP is far easier. :dork:

I disagree. I have hosting with them, and previously made pages in ASP which I found much easier. Although I already had quite a lot of experience with Visual Basic so that probably helped!

Anyway, I find ASP easier - seems more logical to me...

[nashie]

I agree, ASP seems much more logical.

[007]

But PHP is better! :p ;)

[damell]

I did PHP for over a year before getting into ASP through work. That's maybe why i find PHP easier. Still, each to their own.

[ColinP]

I've done ASP and PHP - mostly ASP commercially, but think PHP is a much much easier language for a new user to pick up and I also think it's more than a match for ASP in terms of what you can do too.

I'd pick PHP every time if I had a choice.

[aqureshi]

I am trying to build a Internet Shopping site, and merchant account is with world pay. would I be able to use PHP for my site. I am not sure if World pay supports PHP.

Cheers

Asad

[ic]

Originally posted by aqureshi
I am not sure if World pay supports PHP. I've a friend that runs quite a few PHP sites with WorldPay.

[DeadKenny]

PHP is also cross-platform, running on most operating systems and most web-servers, whereas ASP is strictly a Microsoft Windows + IIS thing (okay there are some attempts at porting ASP to UNIX but they're either half-arsed or very expensive requiring software such as Mainwin... and they still struggle with database access, and don't support .Net).

If you were looking at ASP, I'd go with .Net though as it's supposed to be simpler, but from a portability perspective PHP is the way to go for scripted stuff.