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It's funny when you hear people talk about the so called "web 2.0" like it's the new web. It's a tell-tale sign of somebody who obviously does not know anything about the web and its underlying technologies.

hii all
i think after reading all these articles and many more like this once cannot make a decision on whether he should choose asp or php.
i think once should choose what he understands faster and is more interesting for him.
as asp and php both has advantages and disadvantages. so go with what u like.

If you want to choose a OS, "Windows" is the best choice in this world. Because It is user friendly,easy and has a growing mega list of available softwares for it. But Microsoft doesn't know anything about today's web2. How many people use ASP for their blog? And who told you guyz that bigger and corporate websites should be in ASP? Google is ASP?Facebook is ASP? Microsoft never succeeded in getting a little share of the web.Google and yahoo throwed MS out of this virtual world. But how?because MS is out dated in every aspect. On the other hand others introduced new technology and features day by day.
A VB.net application and a ASP application looks same,except ASP.net runs in a browser.
PHP is even a easier language than C.you don't have to know c to learn it. Guyz from C will find it so easy because it is built on C.but that's not mandatory.

I really don't care which is better. WPN was built on Drupal as I know.

PHP is the preferred language to me for some reasons:

1. Easy to Learn / Use
2. Platform Compatibility
3. Free Third Parties & Great CMS (Smarty, CakePHP, Drupal, Wordpress)

Usually, I develop my new sites with PHP + Smarty + ADODB. It's really easy to start even using text editor like VIM. Check out my case at Domain-daily.com .

I started with asp and I now i am php developer and I would never recommend my client to use ASP... it takes twice time as it takes for php..... and if you got a chance to upload a file ???? then you ask google to find you plugin... and many more...

PHP Rocks!!

while i am a asp.net man i am finding that more and more php websites are popping up. i think i need to make the dreadful change and bite the c++ bullet : (

thanks for sharing this article again!

For anyone that is older than 10 years old would know that anything developed by Microsoft is flawed from the code on up. There are so many security issues with ASP, ASP.Net, IIS and any numerous MS Servers. As well as MS SQL has nothing on MySQL since SUN is the new owner. Also Php / Zend is way more powerful than anything Microsoft can come up with. I prefer Windows to Linux as an End User. When it comes to my business. Well enough said. The old debate used to be whether NT was good enough to over take Unix. LOL, we can all see where that failed. So once again There is nothing Microsoft can make that is good. Enough Said.

ok you may think php but hear this.
and i'm talking about asp.net and visual studio's now.

asp has c#or vb wich are two of the most used language's,
asp uses visual studio's wich means BOOM INTELLICENCE and the propper use of classes and all the libraries.

asp is overall also nicer coding i mean like when you have mayor sites written in php its hard to look at the code and see what it does while in asp its better to order it.

visual studio's also has a tool box wich takes allot of coding of your hands and face it linq rules.

but all of this indeed is not free.

i have visual studio's and my vote go's for asp!

Great comparison and great discussion. But I believe that this discussion never ends. Because they both have advantages and disadvantages. And the first place changes from which perspective you look.

Comparing php and asp (or even asp.net) is rather impossible. Why? just because one can achieve similar results (a webpage, server administration, email) from them both, doesn't mean they are equal. That's like saying a steak sandwich is better than an orange, because the steak sandwich filled me up more, if you ate another orange until the price was the same, you would find the orange equally filling - might take longer, but it would still do the same job.
ASP is considerably different than php, growing up with Basic on an Apple II, and even basic on Mac, i had a background that allowed me to explore ASP (for free) however, as i started developing websites (initially with coldfusion/Access) i soon discovered that my clients wanted a less expensive platform, i switched to php, as i could build myself an enterprise server from an old 486 i had collecting dust.
I continued to learn ASP and moved into the .net realm, but at that time development tools were expensive, while possible to program ASP in Textpad (inexpensive syntax highlighting notepad) i found that it was much easier to debug and develop in Perl using my own dedicated server.
when I graduated from college and needed a job, companies hiring new grads were not looking for someone that was going to cost them a lot for rollout. And Php was the language everyone was looking for. (LAMP developers) So i gave up on ASP and started learning PHP so i could get a job.
While i revisit ASP from time to time, and know a lot of univerties focus on the ASP and Visual frameworks (due to bigger budgets, educational pricing) university graduates tend to graduate into larger firms requiring more comprehensive OS's and Technical resources. The ASP.Net Framework not only produces their website, it also reports sales directly into their Excel spreadsheets, and their accounting department access the MS SQL server for it's data. Big corporation money spending $ on technology to make even bigger money is how big business works, and ASP.Net is the tool for that job. It was a very wise decision for MS to develop a more familiar to C programmers a C like language and make a framework that was interoperable (.Net). While it's nothing new, corporations like the idea of having one name, no matter how much slandered, to manage all their technological solutions.
It takes experience and know-how to develop a PHP workstation, and inevitably along the way one faces hurdles and frustrations with the openness of PHP and making it work. If you have the time and patience, PHP is an excelent choice, but trying to get an extra 10 minutes out of a big shot manager to figure out why your IDE isn't working, doesn't always fly. So ASP has a very important place. PHP on the other hand is far more accessible, but at a steeper installation and management cost (time, not always $$).
While running a small multi server ISP, it was a full time job trying to keep everything up-to-date, and secure. A responsible ISP keeps track of numerous emails noting security alerts, and updating source code, not only of PHP installation, but of the base server, email server, DNS servers etc. It's nice to think that we can just pay MS to do that for us - even if they have a poor track record.
Some days i feel like an orange! Other days i feel like an Apple. And while today 90% of my bread and butter is made developing PHP web applications, i would never say that i would not, could not use ASP.Net should i need to. I don't like MS's latency on getting on board with new technology, but then there are many others who are quite happy to know what they know, and are not ready for Web 3.0 for another 5 years yet, they've just started to learn XML and Ajax, and having to switch gears to learn JSON is just too much to handle - they like the slow and sure roll-outs of MS releases.