What's the diff between PHP and ASP

[copyright_1978]

Can someone list the advantages and disadvantages of both, I know PHP is freeware along with MySQL and Apache, but in terms of what can be done with them, which is more advanced? Suppose I wanted to start an ecommerce site what would I use. I need advantages and disadvantages, thank you people I know my post seems a bit rude and demandind but in a rush. Merci.

[mairving]

I personally like PHP better than ASP. As far as the advantages of each. The main advantage PHP has over ASP is that it is open-source and is Usually used in the LAMP(Linux, Apache, MYSQL, PHP) configuration. There are companies like Chilisoft that have 'nix versions of ASP but it is not opensource. As far as the other advantages, here are a some articles on the battle:

http://php.weblogs.com/php_vs_asp
http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/asp_php.html
http://cyberiot.com/php_vs_asp.htm
http://www8.ewebcity.com/wfeng/home.asp

[cobra]

Love your sig mairving

[mosquito]

I work a lot with ASP, and have a little experience with PHP, and My opinion is that PHP is a nicer system than ASP (not because it's open source). Just because you can code cleaner with PHP than with ASP. On the other hand, I think ASP.NET is much better than plain ASP and PHP because you can save a lot of browser specific coding. ASP.NET detects the browser version, and uses client side scripting or server side scripting depending on the capabilities of the browser. Another advantage is the fact that you are working with compiled assemblies. The disadvantage of ASP.NET is the fact that it's still in beta.