Is PHP really different from ASP.net??

Question

I'm a web developer...I've been using ASP,ASP.net for a while..yet I have a new project that I've to use PHP/MySQL(OScommerse) in it...Do I have to study PHP,MySQL, for while before I start....or It's just a matter of syntax...can I just start the project depending on my experience in ASP.net & just use a reference to check PHP syntax...

Answer 1

1) Both languages are serverside scripting languages. Your experience in ASP will be helpful in coding PHP.

I think php is some what easy to program when compared to ASP as it has no of functions to do yuor necessary tasks. Only thing is there is some syntactical differences.

PHP code may be in different ways as,
echo "Hello world"
?>

or

echo "Hello world"
?>

or



here u can us echo or print(HTML tags wont work) instead of request.output in ASP.

For ebooks on PHP goto following site,

http://lab.lpicn.org/pub/books/


Cheers...!

Answer 2

You'll design the application better if you are familiar with the capabilities of the language in advance. I'm not well aquainted with either of the languages here, but in general, you will be able to reduce the amount of work you have to do greatly before you even start writing if you can design the application to use the intended platform properly. I think it is very likely that you will try and do things the 'ASP.NET way' and will end up with nasty code as you try and hack it to use PHP libraries etc. I always find that after I've gotten to know a language, I can drastically improve my older code.

Answer 3

well the .Net Framework makes you lazzy because you can compile and the intellisense do the job for you and with PHP you can't either compile or press ctrl+space to get the intellisense, so you need to put more attention on it. But for OSCommerce there are a lot of free products on the web.

talking about asp (not .aspx) and php, i like PHP/MySQL, it's faster and stronger.

BUT .NET FRAMEWORK RULEZ!!!!! (aspx)

if you need some help with the php coding go to php.org also you can download a virtual server in easyphp.org

Answer 4

Yes, PHP is really different from ASP.Net. None of the objects you have at your disposal in ASP.Net will be available in PHP, so you will actually need to program rather than endlessly call all kinds of APIs...

Answer 5

I would definately say yes. PHP is what I would call a spagetti language, where .NET is a true object oriented framework to build applications.