Brief comparison of PHP and ASP Dec04 '05
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# (2 of 6): Matthom
1 week, 4 days after the fact. (Thu 15 Dec 2005, 11:22 AM CST)
Interesting... thanks Dale. Another example of the versatility that PHP has over ASP.
# (3 of 6): Josh » joahua.com/blog
2 weeks, 1 day after the fact. (Tue 20 Dec 2005, 3:47 AM CST)
Mmm... dubious about the security of such versatility, though. PHP has earnt a bad rep for such things, even if people generally consider IIS/Microsoft stuff to be not much better!
# (4 of 6): Matthom
2 weeks, 2 days after the fact. (Tue 20 Dec 2005, 8:08 AM CST)
PHP Security to the rescue!
# (5 of 6): Scott
1 year, 8 months after the fact. (Tue 21 Aug 2007, 12:30 AM CST)
A little late to the game, I realize, but just in case anyone happens to come across this via Google...
No "total rows" function after a query Try: result.RecordCount
Formatting code Try: vbCrLf (e.g. "My string"&vbCrLf)
Basically each language has its strengths... ASP/ADO is much more intuitive for handling DB work, PHP kicks ass when dealing with file management & arrays, both are pretty comparable in dealing with strings (I would argue that PHP is a little superfluous/redundant with its string functions).
Hope that helps!
# (6 of 6): James » cj-design.com
2 years, 1 month after the fact. (Thu 24 Jan 2008, 10:59 AM CST)
Hi,
Great post.
I use both PHP and ASP and have to say you are almost spot on in your comparison of the two.
Here I look at some alternatives for ASP, if available....
No "quick" operators - CORRECT, totally agree that PHP is superior
No "total rows" function - CORRECT, although there are better ways to count rows than your example in ASP;
a) use SELECT COUNT(*) (- drawback is that you have to perform two queries) b) use numRows = uBound(query.GetRows(), 2) + 1 (- better than your example and pretty quick, even with thousands of rows - more than this should probably use the above SQL method) c) use one of the ADO methods to retrieve the RecordCount (sometimes not available).
Formatting code - CORRECT, you can also use:
"my string " & vbcrlf & vbcrlf
Passing variables across pages - ALMOST CORRECT
With ASP you should say that it uses Request.QueryString("page") instead of PHP's $GET and Request.Form("apples") instead of PHP's $POST. The "Global" Request("var") will look in the querystring first, then the post, then the session, then the cookie - so its best to use the former method(s). Likewise, PHP has global variables $_GLOBALS.
No associative arrays! - This is what annoys me the most
You can, however, use the ASP dictionary object - but it still requires functions to help sort etc. So I agree that PHP is far superior when it comes to arrays functions.
PHP vs. ASP - which is better?
PHP for sure!
But people tend to pay more for ASP because they trust Microsoft! :p
Cheers
James
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I’ve been using ASP at work, and other than it being a completely out-dated language, there’s so many little differences (annoyances), as compared to PHP.
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# (1 of 6): Dale » bluetrait.com
1 week, 3 days after the fact. (Wed 14 Dec 2005, 10:00 PM CST)
You can use $_REQUEST in php. This takes into account $_GET, $_POST and $_COOKIE.
http://www.php.net/reserved.variables