PHP Programming Tips

In PHP, common tasks like ftp, encrypt passwords in MD5, or send email from a web page all are built in hidden code, and as PHP is Open source there is a lot
of free code available for PHP.

Unlike PHP there is no hidden code with ASP. If you need to upload files, then you would need a third party component like ASP upload, also if you need to send mail you need another component and so on.

Although PHP is better in many aspects, ASP offers more security than PHP.

Price Compared to ASP, PHP installations are absolutely cheaper to install. PHP perfectly runs on Linux (which is a free OS) and programmers use MySQL .(which also comes FREE) ASP runs on the IIS Server (Internet Information Server) which requires Windows N.T/2000/2003 Servers or better. Aside from that ASP mostly uses MS-SQL Server as the back end which is really expensive. PHP obviously is cheaper than ASP.

Cross Platform compatibility
PHP programs run on a wide variety of Operating Systems Unix, Linux, Solaris and Window’s.ASP on the other hand only works flawlessly with Windows and not with other platforms. PHP offers more versatility than ASP.

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Looping statements, like Do-While looping statements, While looping statements, and For looping statements, makes programming very easy, even at making PHPs. But did you know that there is something that looping statements can’t loop? That’s right! There is something. Looping statements can’t loop If-Else statements. That’s because when the looping statement starts, it goes through the If-Else statement, and then, whatever the statement the If-Else statement supplies, it will be the new statement the looping statement loops, and the If-Else statement will be left aside. I’ve been creating PHPs in our school and I tell you, it’s very frustrating that your looping statements are not looping the whole statements you put inside it. Thus, your website will not work properly. The only solution that I find is that you have to use Switch statements. Switch statements are like If-Else statements, but the Switch statements are more specific. Try it! It works, even at other programming language

Speed
Relatively, PHP is much faster and stable than ASP, this is because ASP is built on a COM-based architecture so whenever a program tries to connect to a database or calls for a COM object, there is an overhead on the server, and this COM overhead adds up and slows things down.
While in PHP, everything runs in PHP’s memory space , this implies that PHP code will run faster because there is no overhead of communicating with different COM objects in different processes.
In addition to this ASP is slower and is a more memory intensive application than PHP’s model because each ASP language compiler runs in its own process.

What is PHP?
PHP or (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is Open Source’s scripting language designed for the construction of dynamic web pages. PHP is largely used in server-side scripting, but can also be used from a command line interface or in standalone graphical applications.PHP commonly runs on a web server, taking the PHP code as its input and creating web pages as output. It can be set up on most web servers and on almost every operating system and platform for free.

What is ASP?
Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft’s scripting language for building dynamic web sites, web applications and web services., First released in January 2002 , along with the version 1.0 of the .NET Framework, ASP.net is the successor to Microsoft’s Active Server Pages (ASP) technology. ASP.NET is made on the Common Language Runtime, allowing programmers to write ASP.NET code via any supported .NET language such as VBScript and Jscript.