Understanding PHP, HTML, ASP

[Briganti]

Hello everyone,

I use HTML and ASP, I was wondering about PHP and if I really need to know the languge or not? I would like to know what the difference is with all three.

Bob

 

[leafypiggy]

Html only outputs text/code.

ASP (no clue) I guess it's OK for server side stuff, but not good for multi system interactions.

PHP is also server side like ASP, however much friendlier and open source. I believe that PHP is much simpler to use, and easier to understand than ASP, but I don't really know ASP.

I would highly recommend learning PHP, as it makes it easy to make dynamic pages for websites.

 

[VPmase]

Its always a good thing to know a lot of languages I suggest you learn it if you can and want to.

 

[akkudreamz]

PHP is open source, and is supported by a huge community, all the web servers support it specially the free hosting providers' so you wana give it a try

on the other hand ASP requires you to use Microsoft's tools and the whole platform, and its very tuff to find good web hosts providing ASP support

 

[freecrm]

Html, as pointed out, only parses (shows) a page on the client side.

Both asp and php are (again as pointed out) server side scripts.

This means that, as you access the page, it can access information to/from the server, without imposing any further processing onto your client-side processor (your pc). This is referred to as a dynamic website.

As far as I know, asp language goes hand in hand with SQL Server databases and yes, you will need to shell out on MS SQL technology!

php is open-source (free) and runs with MySQL Servers (again.. free). A common terms is LAMP, which stands for Linux (the platform) Apache (The program which parses the data) MySQL (The database) and PHP.

php continues to be a widely used language and is easy to follow - running alongside html.

<?php echo "Good luck!";?>