dear fellows i m new to webdevelopment.i have been using free templates earlier but i m intersted to learn a language asp or php.so can u people help in decideing me whichlanguage shouldi learn and why u say which is better.

thx

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/php-fo...s-asp-net.html

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/asp-fo...ersus-php.html

PHP to start with would be better, it's easier to learn and is a lot faster (not to mention, the support is quite good for it)

but dont you think it has been outdated or will it be in the market incoming years

Originally Posted by ltimranjaved

but dont you think it has been outdated or will it be in the market incoming years

Why would you think that?

Just look at the number of PHP posts on this forum versus ASP.
That should tell you something about the relative popularity.

Besides, PHP is open source (the way of the future).
ASP is Microsoft (a fading star in the internet universe).

PHP5 was a profound evolution from PHP4.
PHP6 promises to be even better...(full unicode support)

Originally Posted by rogem002

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/php-fo...s-asp-net.html

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/asp-fo...ersus-php.html

PHP to start with would be better, it's easier to learn and is a lot faster (not to mention, the support is quite good for it)

Cool links man! I will read them all later...

I think that PHP is way much better and efficient compared to Yahoo..

Originally Posted by zeruel

I think that PHP is way much better and efficient compared to Yahoo..

That made me giggle so much, I twittered it.

PHP is currently quite awesome, websites such as youtube and facebook use it

Originally Posted by zeruel

I think that PHP is way much better and efficient compared to Yahoo..

What?

...Regarding the topic

I don't think one is better than the other, and any debate about which is better will likely turn into a popularity contest.

There are a lot of things about PHP that make it "easy" (no strong type checking, dynamic arrays, a huge library that is included by default), but as someone new to programming those are the things that are likely to lead to bad habbits. I think it would be better to start out with a language like Java or C++.

Calling PHP open source and ASP proprietary isn't really a good point to base your decision on. Java is developed by Sun, but no one seems to care about that. The fact that ASP is not released under GPL (neither is PHP) is going to have zero impact on you as a programmer.

You should base your decision on what you intend to do. If you are working with an existing CMS it is likely that it is coded in PHP. If you are hosted on a linux machine then .NET might not even be an option.

You could just ignore everyone's advice and go learn JSP

ASP is a rather outdated technology. It is really just the pay for, non-open source version of PHP 4. Don't confuse it with ASP.NET, which is a totally different platform, similar in name only. ASP.NET is pretty much totally different than PHP, in fact, it isn't even a programming language. ASP.NET is a framework, inside of which programming languages and other data can exist, then be compiled together to form a dynamic webpage or application. It also has its own tagged based template system, much like Smarty for PHP, though a bit more complicated.

PHP is, in my opinion, much easier to use. Because ASP.NET is compiled, however, it is faster. I've only been on one .NET project, one in C#, in which I was mostly doing HTML, CSS, and front-end code. Even this part is written in a weird and different way in a Visual Web Developer project, with tons of ASP XML tags smattered throughout, which you need to learn to use in order to do even simple things like place classes on certain <input> elements, or other active form elements.

ASP.NET also does weird things, like place entire webpages inside of a form in some configurations, and there is the JavaScript postback framework that I find very confusing. All in all, I'd say I never quite got over the learning curve, but I know from my experience, that I will always prefer PHP because of how straightforward it is.

Originally Posted by NullPointer

You could just ignore everyone's advice and go learn JSP

Just start straight with Python. Skip everything else

I'd suggest PHP, it's a much nicer language in my opinion.

I had used both in programming and I completely recommend php.
asp has many issues with incompatibility with older versions or even with versions updates. also it is buggy when some thing go wrong with our code it will be so hard to know exactly what is the reason.
php is the one you go

php is lot easier to implement and one of the best starting point for a beginner