On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Dare Williams <darrenwilly@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear Developers, > > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479002.aspx > I read an Article on the above Microsoft website stating the reason why to Migrate from PHP to ASP.NET. So can you please justify this proofs from Microsoft and let everybody knows if they are all TRUE and MEANIFUL atall or they are just cheap lies to backup their product. Please advice? Prior to putting too much stock into the article at the present time, it should be noted that it was written in September, 2003 - about four and a half years ago. PHP has progressed immensely since then, when the latest stable release was 4.3.3 (and a 5.0.0 beta was also available). The first and foremost important thing the article mentions is indeed true: "PHP is based on a platform-independent processor/engine that parses PHP scripts and provides for database connections, Internet protocol compliance, and numerous other tasks common to most Web application platforms." Not enough attention is given to the fact that ASP.NET requires a Microsoft system with IIS to run (not even just to run efficiently, but as of right now, to run at all). It's also true that ASP.NET supports many programming languages. And why? Because ASP.NET is not a language in itself, despite the fact that Microsoft attempts to compare it to a single language. ASP.NET is a server suite which, by the way, requires multiple commercial licenses. PHP is a single language capable of delivering the same exact end result as PHP: a standard HTML web page. Of course, neither language is limited to that, but that's by far the primary usage of both. In my opinion, their argument and indication of superiority with regard to commenting is severely lacking, but not worth granting or revoking a point on either side. The sections on variables and data types speak for themselves. PHP wins, hands down. From the section "Object-Oriented Programming in PHP and ASP.NET": "While OOP purists may debate that ASP.NET and the various languages do not fully support every concept in the OOP paradigm, this is true of most languages considered OOP, such as C++ and Java. "This has both an upside and a downside. The downside is that for some Web developers there is a steeper learning curve for ASP.NET versus PHP, which offers a scripting paradigm that developers have traditionally employed for building Web sites. However, developers who have a background in OOP languages and/or Vwill find ASP.NET intuitively familiar and easy to learn." On looping: PHP: for ($i = 1; $i <= 100; $i++) { print $i; } ASP: Dim sum As Integer = 0 Dim counter As Integer For counter = 1 To 100 Step 5 sum += counter Next For i = 1 To 100 Response.Write (i) Next I Array creation shows "$a = array (0,1,2);" for PHP vs "Dim MySingleArraya() As Integer = New Integer (2) {0,1,2}" for ASP. .... and so forth and so forth. However, I would rewrite their summary a little bit. The original: "A migration from PHP to ASP.NET in most cases is not very complex for simple to small applications. Due to underlying architectural differences as well as ASP.NET's OOP paradigm, more sophisticated and complex applications need to be planned and well thought out to take advantage of ASP.NET's more rigorous separation of display from logic and data, as well as time saving built in functionality that significantly reduces the amount of code necessary to do comparable tasks." The summary should probably read more along the lines of this: "A migration from PHP to ASP.NET should only occur if your employer is on the Microsoft payroll, if you enjoy senseless mental anguish, or you like the fact that ASP can (perhaps fittingly) be pronounced like the name of a snake, whereas PHP can not. Due to underlying architectural differences as well as ASP.NET's OOP paradigm, more sophisticated and complex applications baffle even our top engineers, so ASP.NET may lead to premature baldness, depression, divorce, and a newfound respect for PHP. ASP.NET should be your primary choice for those who prefer non-reusable, non-portable code, expensive closed source solutions, lack of support for things as simple as mailing gateways and the like, and unbelievable and unnecessary large files consisting of hundreds of lines of code that could otherwise have been simplified to several dozen." -- </Dan> Daniel P. Brown Senior Unix Geek <? while(1) { $me = $mind--; sleep(86400); } ?> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
