How does it compare PHP to ASP? Perl?

• PHP has the same context as ASP - that is, it's embedded inside HTML. Perl on the other hand has a shell context - it was designed for use on the command line, not inside a web page.
• ASP's native implementation is Windows only, using the IIS server. Some UNIX implementations also exist, but their feature sets aren't as complete, and at the time of writing, none were free. Conversely, PHP is available for well over a dozen platforms and web servers; in fact, any server that can supports the CGI standard can run PHP, and several optimised server-specific PHP modules also exist and are supplied with the standard package.
• Both PHP and Perl are modular - functionality can be added and removed by including modules. In Perl, modules must be loaded by the script or specified on the command line, but in PHP modules can be either dynamically loaded (in the script) or specified in the PHP.ini file to load automatically when PHP starts up.
• In tests, PHP's performance came out marginally ahead of ASP, though to be honest, there's not much in it. Both are approximately 3-4 times faster than Cold Fusion, however.
• PHP, like Perl, is open source. You can download the code, compile it, modify it, basically do whatever you want.
  

Main different between PHP and ASP is - PHP is free and ASP is not.

That in case of PHP and Pearl, PHP is object oriented language while Pl script is not.

you can get free versions of asp like SUNASP and ApacheAsp but they are not completly the smae as microsofts ASP. asp comes with the server distro you cannot buy it seperatly can you?

I suggest to use PHP.

Why you going towards ASP if you can have PHP for free.

Iam sure that PHP willwork better than ASP.

Also they have a better community suport.

i can code both but im better with asp as i think its easier but i am going through several ooks like i did with asp and expanding my knowlage.

Iam little deeply gone through PHP and thats why iam little closer to PHP.

Also heard that php is 10% more performing than ASP.

i was going to switch to php when i have fully learned it. i am at the stage at the moment that if i have the time and patience to do it i could sit down and put my mind to it and probabaly create some good aplications. i think it is a great scripting language though as its free. you can download it from http://www.php.net

Ya. great one.

I prefer PHP, I think it is a lot more powerful than ASP and Perl. Another reason why I prefer PHP is because it is free whereas ASP is not.
If you are not happpy with the performance of ASP or Perl I reccomend that you switch over to PHP!!

Wow, everyone here forgot completely about mono didnt they. There is an Open Source implementation of the .NET framework called Mono, hugely popular in the open source world. It has the ability to run on top apache and run ASP.NET scripts, and I believe regular ASP scripts as well but im not sure. Well ASP in general is just an all around bad language, its a mess, there is very little documentation, there is very little functionality in the box. This means you have to shell out tons of extra money for extra ASP modules. When all of php's are built in and there are alot of them. On top of that php's documentation is just awsome, they have function/docs search built into their website, making it really easy to quickly access documentation about any particular part of the language. ASP simply cannot compare, and lets not forget that ASP is enormously OLD technology. Way out of date these days.

maddog39, do you have any experience with the Mono? How much it is reliable?

The main advantage of ASP is the integration of .NET frameworks.

PHP is always better.

As far as my experience with Mono, no I dont have much at all. I made a little Hello World Gtk# application in it. I do know however that many linux desktop applications are now written in CSharp.NET with Mono and Gtk#. Gtk+ of course isthe GUI toolkit very commonly used in linux/unix, popularized by the GNOME desktop environment and Gtk# is the CSharp.NET binding to it. So to answer the reliability question, yes it's very stable and reliable.