Comments on: PHP VS. ASP.NET

By: DrOhReally

DrOhReally — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:06:31 +0000

to be fair I find it much easier to work with asp.net, everything is at your fingertips (intellisense is a big bonus), unlike PHP where you need to do everything manually unless you get a third party framework which most of the time is not free to use commertially. I do prefer the php for MySQL, I’ve never liked the MSSQL hehe

By: Stefan

Stefan — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:59:54 +0000

Except that in PHP, everything you wanna do has most-likely already been done, and you can just copy paste, which far outweights the development costs that certainly are not lower in ASP.NET. PostBacks are anyway a bad idea (use AJAX and MVC, so I wouldn’t say PHP is bad, because it’s meant for AJAX, and not PostBacks, and actively discourages the use of PostBacks) and that you can run PHP on Windows as well. The speed of ASP.NET with postbacks and viewstate certainly is slower than PHP (although the compiled C# language by itselfs is by far faster than interpreted PHP). Besides, you can also run ASP.NET on a Linux box (you can develop on Windows using VisualStudio). That way, you get the best of both worlds !

By: peter

peter — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 03:01:06 +0000

as you said this is a shallow comparison – a fair comparison would be say, framework comparison rather than the framework to language comparison you did – zend framework has hooks to lifecycle events (predispatch postdispatch etc); zend also has several caching options; zend layout pages transaltes to what a master page is in .net; you can use phpunit for unit testing; partial views are reusable components in zend…I could go on and on …do your homework before blogging

By: viral chhatrola

viral chhatrola — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 06:13:02 +0000

can you tell the difference between mvc frame work of PHP and .NET

By: sanjay

sanjay — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:55:07 +0000

hi,
I like he way you have put your ideas actually we are planning to host a website but were confused which one to use thanks buddy

By: david

david — Sat, 28 May 2011 21:46:45 +0000

I agree @XV22 … As a junior to mid level developer I feel the support for php is much stronger. I have worked with asp before and found it support limited

By: XV22

XV22 — Mon, 23 May 2011 12:12:05 +0000

Why the hell does this page come in first results on Google !
The guy didn’t even use and IDE like Netbeans when he did PHP, he used some damn text editor, of course ASP.NET will seem better when you have such basic experience with PHP.
LOL he said in ASP.NET you have reusable header, footer, etc which is super cool, so what ?! you do the same in PHP it’s no black magic goddamn it !

By: Highwinder

Highwinder — Tue, 10 May 2011 23:42:09 +0000

I strongly disagree, at least for the time being. Everything I encounter in open sours is annoyingly “half there” compared to COTS. The last word I would use to describe open source with is “superior”. I typically use words such as “incomplete”, “forever in beta”, “pajama code”, “not properly documented”, “get what you pay for” and “weak”. I’d put Visual Studio up against anything open source any day the same way I would put PhotoShop up against GIMP. The real question to ask is if all the open source options are so superior to VS, why Mono? Why didn’t open source come up with the languages that the open source community is so clamoring for nowadays? And why did it take Microsoft? And why, after two decades of Linux and open source preaching, does open source still only enjoy a 9% market share after being given away for free for decades? The answer I come up with is that of continued rejection.

By: solde9

solde9 — Tue, 10 May 2011 20:41:11 +0000

Sameer, it’s completely different from buying a car. The open source alternatives are extremely superior and this tendency will continue to grow.

By: Highwinder

Highwinder — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 19:28:47 +0000

I was writing multi-threaded apps with VB back in 1995 (the VB3/4 days) simply by using timers and DoEvents(). I had this figured out back when the C++ world was laughing at VB because it “couldn’t multithread”. I was laughing at the C++ world for how long it took them to write ANYTHING that I was doing – not to mention how we didn’t require a cottage industry to spring up around us for dealing with memory leaks like what happened in the C++ world.

Today’s PHP as a language itself is vastly inferior to even the Microsoft Visual Basic of 16 years ago. And today’s ASP.NET (as language, Internet server-side processor, and even the IDE itself) is light years ahead of even that. This is how far behind PHP is as a language.

PHP was written by people who had no clue about hwo to write a programming language, which explains why it was such a mess until it started getting “fixed” recently (v5).

Say what you want about Microsoft, but Microsoft does programming languages better than anyone else, hands down, and has from the beginning. Is it any wonder why the Linux world want’s the .NET languages to be ported over to Linux so badly? It’s because of the LANGUAGES. (See the massive effort behind the Mono project).