PHP vs. ASP

Running head : PHP vs . ASP

PHP vs . ASP Introduction

PHP and ASP are the two best web technologies this century is to offer In their own ways , they have created trust and market for their product and development environment

Anstey (2003 ) mentions that PHP belongs to a free software community and open source general purpose software which is very easy to use and correct its bugs from the community of developers around the world

ASP is a program that runs on IIS server and is a free component with windows operating

system and offers various features (Argence , 2008 ASP .NET is a unified Web development platform that provides services necessary for developers to build enterprise-class Web applications ASP .NET provides programming model and infrastructure for more secure scalable , and stable applications . ASP .NET is a compiled .NET based web environment developed in any .NET compatible languages like Visual Basic .NET , C , JScript .NET , etc . Additionally , the entire .NET Framework is available to any ASP .NET application . Developers can easily access the benefits of these technologies , which include the managed common language runtime environment , type safety , inheritance , and so on

The foundation of all Web applications is that they deliver dynamic content over a protocol which by model is stateless . Most of the ASP .NET developments fall in client-server architecture programming model Minimal points to be considered for a typical web application modeled as client-server architecture are given below

1 . User interface and client environment (Page layout

2 . Data verification , transfer and store

3 . Security

4 . Scalability , reliability and availability of the application

5 . Optimized resource utilization and performance

6 . Handling unpleasant instances gracefully

7 . Navigation

Literature review

PHP traces back to the development of Perl and C which emerged quite successfully as a result of the contribution of the various programmers around the globe and as a result of its being an open community . The various versions came out successfully through 1997 to 2004 where the features were added and successfully taken up to cater to the development paradigm of the large scale of internet users

ASP came handy with Windows 95 with the features of IIS server installed . It was an established standard which takes into account the various databases into consideration and is based on the COM model

The various differences among PHP and ASP make sure that all to a good extent the feature are compiled and carries enough advantage to understand the loopholes and make sure that all the various utilities are enforced well

PHP and ASP depict large scale differences in the form of various factors like cost , integration of features , speed , platform compatibility , additional costs , base language , database connectivity and many others

Cost

As PHP is not single handedly owned by any individual or an organization it does not requires to be purchased for use . Even for the support of the backend , it uses a database technology named MySQL which is also available free of cost (DuBois , 2002 . The hosting of the PHP pages...