Both PHP and ASP is a popular programming language, and is used extensively from building a website, database, games to consoles. Both can interact with the databases and help with the exchange of information.

About PHP & ASP

ASP is the short form of Active Servers Pages. A Microsoft product, it is used with ISS or Internet Information Servers. ASP.Net runs on Microsoft Servers. It is an open-source web application framework used for designing dynamic web pages. It allows programmers to easily build dynamic web pages and web applications.

PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. It is a server-side language primarily used for programming and web development. It was created by Rasmus Lerdof, but later was modified by a few different people. This programming language works on UNIX or Apache servers.

Here are 5 basic differences between PHP & ASP

Cost

The cost implementing the two differs. IIS is required to run ASP which isn’t available for free, whereas, PHP which runs on Linux is entirely free. Even connecting the database with ASP.Net can cost money because it uses MS-SQL. PHP on the other hand uses MySQL, for the most part, which is a free to use open source.

Base Language

PHP uses C++ as the base language, while ASP uses a Visual Basic syntax used by most Microsoft products. PHP’s base language is very similar to C#/C++, which is considered the best and easiest programming language by many programmers.

Speed

ASP and PHP programs don’t run at the same speed. PHP is known to be load or run faster than ASP because it runs on its own memory space. ASP is built on COM based architecture, which tends to be slower.

Additional Costs

PHP provides necessary tools, add-ons, plugins free of charge, while ASP provides many tools, but they come with an additional cost. PHP has many in-built features, such as webmail (email from a web page), ftp for sharing files, encryption mechanisms.

ASP, on the other hand, doesn’t have many built-in features and some additional components may be required at an additional cost.

Usage

Although both language is used for programming and web development, php is mostly adopted by programmers for programming need, while ASP is mostly used for developing web pages and web applications.

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