PHP or .Net ? - Page 3 - HTML Forums

ngaisteve1 · 07-22-2008, 10:49 AM

Over here in Malaysia, I tried one of the most popular job sites, Jobstreet

".NET" keyword gets 492 results,
"asp" keyword gets 338 results,
"PHP" keyword gets 203 results.

Vege · 07-22-2008, 12:18 PM

Quote:

Vege, watch a pro .NET developer whip up a web-based database in a matter of minutes and then you'll understand.

web-based database?

afterburn · 07-23-2008, 12:38 PM

Yes a webbased user interface to the db.

and have you looked at tools like codesmithtools.com or others that have an awesome functionality?

Here is an example of building an application that has 1 table for customers.

drag datagrid from UI Toolbox, Drag SqlDataSource drop both on the page, click on sqldatasource on selectcommand type select * from tblCustomers.

and save and run the page.

¥åßßå · 07-23-2008, 01:28 PM

asp.net is cool and all that ( ***** of a learning curve though) ..... but drag 'n' drop coding? .... next you'll tell me that you use front page as well

¥

afterburn · 07-23-2008, 01:47 PM

I bet that you use dreamweaver. No i use VS.net 2008 Pro.
All that functionality is included in all versions of VS.net

Check out VS.net Express asp.net
VS.net C# Express

(Pro includes them in 1 GUI).

Most of my UI Coding is done by either scripting it or by hand, i was just showing you how easy.

Have you used MasterPages?
Dynamically added controls to pages?
Implemented custom User Management?

A ton of code unless you know how to use the tools you have...
OOP BasePages, custom strongly typed datasets; Cryptography, Threading, XML, IO, Sockets?

Lots of tools right at finger tips!!

ngaisteve1 · 07-24-2008, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by afterburn

... i use VS.net 2008 Pro.

How I wish. I am using VS 2003.

@¥åßßå, I agree with you ASP.NET's BIG learning curve. But, I guess it's worth for long term in software engineering line.

I can feel a bit of its reward now when I debugging some problems.

afterburn · 07-24-2008, 12:08 PM

Look at CodeSmithTools.com they have an awesome tool to help with the migration process to .net or any other language. It is a .net based app, that you write scripts to do tasks against a DB or other source, you can write code with it in scripts. Takes the pain out of re-writing an app. it just rocks.

I wrote scripts to make Stored Procedures, WebForms for Listing data, and Insert/Update/Deletes, Dal that returns strongly typed datasets of business objects that are record layout of each table. Just rocks all day long.

ngaisteve1 · 07-24-2008, 09:18 PM

Is it something like codecharge?

afterburn · 07-25-2008, 10:24 AM

not really; its all how you code not 3rd party control its a program that you script using .net like language to script it compiles it using a DomCode Provider and outputs code

ngaisteve1 · 07-25-2008, 11:13 AM

hmm..not quite understand still. It's okay.

decrypter · 07-28-2008, 07:51 PM

PHP is more easy to learn than .Net but .NET is more professional than Php.

I like .Net so I vote for it.

chili5 · 07-29-2008, 07:28 AM

Why is .NET more professional? If anything PHP is more professional to use, because it is more efficient and saves time.

Which seems more efficient:

ASP.NET

Code:

int i;for (i = 0; i < 10; i++)

{
Response.Write("value of i = " + i + "<br />");

}

or

PHP Code:


			
<?php

for ($i=0;$i<10;$i++) {

echo "value of i = $i <br />";

}

?>

Obviously, PHP is easier and businesses should be concerned with the ease of their code in there application. PHP is easier to read and to write which makes their job faster.

With PHP, you don't have to be concerned with joiningall of these strings together like you have to in ASP.NET.

boyo1991 · 08-10-2008, 04:45 PM

the only reason i choose php is because i have no knowledge really of .NET exept msn messenger lol

so php till otherwise notice

afterburn · 08-11-2008, 09:57 AM

i think you need to look into your string manipulations as i do not think string expansion is faster; You may want to do some timing of those functions. Besides that PHP is a scripting language; which by its very nature is an LogO(O) function just to parse and run the code. However .net is a DLL; after it is compile it runs as fast as machine code.

Faster what to read what the look that you actuall expaned to make it look larger than it is? or the string expansion that make the language slower?

Code:

for(int i = 0;i<10;i++)
   Response.Write("value of i = " + i + "<br />");

The best thing about c# .net is type saftey and true OOP. Looks about the same now in length.

zipho · 08-11-2008, 02:58 PM

.NET is way too confusing... php is very simple to learn and a much better value of time.. more bang for your buck

.NET has way too long and extra parts to scripts, php is more strait forward.. i vote php!

the z. man