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"ASP Questions - Answered by Reaper[oV] and Turbonutter!"

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http://www.php.net is your first stop but a nice, easy tutorial should get you into the swing of things. I can't recommend any as I learnt the hard way (thrown into the deep end and swam), which is also the best way. Anyway, Webmonkey.com have some good tutorials so go there first, then try devshed.com and PHPbuilder.com.

The internet is the fountain of all knowledge in the 21st Century!!

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somewhere like PHPbuilder.com or php3.com will have more examples that you can shake a stick at...

Ho w can I use PHP then?

Do you need a programme for this or what?

Help Please :)

The thing is, there are surprisingly more sites that use PHP than you'd realise. Because it runs best on an Apache server, lots of people modify the server config to run .htm and even .asp files through the PHP parser. Because it's free, it's not seen as "cool" amongst many people, but it's still used widely. For example, the Google search engine uses PHP, as well as Sega, and the mighty Special Reserve.

It may be just a scripting language, but it's still mighty powerful. You'd be surprised.

Youre pretty good at all this arent you ajg, just read your last 2 posts and they sound pretty complicated.

Thanks for the help with the other post aswell

Dav1d

Depends what you're in to.

PHP is a scripting language, whereas ASP is a programming language within a script.

Most programmers out there would have probably have started by learning Visual Basic. Great language for beginners. Easy to get to grips with the fundamentals, while being extremly powerful also.

These days alot of us have now turned to Java. Again, JSP is Java embedded within a script (in this case html). Thats why we're seeing a lot more JSP pages. Object Orientated... mmmmm, my favourite! :)

Lets be honest. Most webpages are build by people who have programming experience. Not all, but most. Whats the point of making more work for yourself by learning PHP too?

My opinion, anyway.
ajg

Where's this 2000 word essay you promised us on ASP Turbonutter?

We demand an answer! :)

cjh wrote:
> So, is there really and difference between PHP and ASP ...
> programming wise, I mean???


PHP is much better and simpler. Lots of servers like it as well.

So, is there really and difference between PHP and ASP ... programming wise, I mean???