8 replies to this topic

[mixpage65]

Hi, next semester i have my last course of computer science and it is a project development.

I already decided that i will develop a home page. That is the future. I just dont want to make a c# or visual basic project, i want to further my leanings in web development.

The real question is what technology i should use? ASP.NET or PHP ? I am already very familiarized with PHP, it is a joy to maintain a d-base with "php my admin". I know nothing about ASP. If i choose ASP, i will learn another technology, but i dont know if i will have the time to get familiarized and develop a nice project in 4-5 months. If i choose PHP i know i will do it better because of the knowledge i already have ( not much, but 100x more than asp lol).

What should i do? What would you do ? Thanks in advance.

[amrosama]

I would choose php
because asp needs c# or vb

[mixpage65]

amrosama said:

I would choose php
because asp needs c# or vb

if it is for that reason, i dont really mind because i already know vb, and c# is simple to learn if you know other influenced languages like c++, java, etc.

[amrosama]

I thought you dont want to use c#
anyways if you dont mind working with c# asp would be very easy and really fast in implementation
what will be your project about?

[mixpage65]

amrosama said:

I thought you dont want to use c#
anyways if you dont mind working with c# asp would be very easy and really fast in implementation
what will be your project about?

sorry, in the first post i told i didnt want to use vb or c#, but i was referring to do a stand alone application. my bad..


well, i dont know yet, one of the requirements is that the project needs to use a d-base with a couple of tables. So i was thinking to do a mini-social network like facebook with all the basic operations, maybe a wall in the profile too. How that sounds ?

[amrosama]

Im doing the same project this semester :)
it should be easy to do in both asp and php, wait for another member reply

[John]

PHP > ASP

[mixpage65]

John said:

PHP > ASP

in what areas specifically ? i know that php is open source and does not need a microsoft server(iis) , all i know is that asp has visual studio and that is a biggg help. ** cough intellisence cough** hehe.

[WingedPanther]

Here's the reality for any reasonably complicated site (which many aren't): If you are producing dynamically generated HTML code, you are probably NOT going to find that the language is important. What is important is things like: ease of form data processing (standard ASP sucks at binary data uploads), ease of including modules, etc. If you're relying on anything other than raw HTML/CSS/JavaScript to get your results, you are likely to become very disappointed when things don't work quite as expected.

PHP isn't just popular because it's free, it's popular because it works well.