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Necronom 
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Joined: 19 October 2001
Location: United States
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 Topic: ASP vs. PHP and Learning curve?
Posted: 30 June 2003 at 10:45am |
I would say that I'm well versed with ASP, meaning that I can pretty much do whatever is is that I need or want to do. My biggest problem is that I can code stuff for all my Linux hosted buddies. So what I'm interested in is learning PHP.
So my question for you is this:
What's the learning curve like for diving into PHP if I already know ASP? And in the long run, which one would you prefer?
Thanks for your help!
. necronom .
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ljamal
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Posted: 30 June 2003 at 12:14pm |
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Totally different language, but with every programming language learning the basics is the most difficult part and once you know the basics of one language the next is much simpler. I grabbed the O'Reilly PHP book and read it and have no problems developing in PHP.
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Gullanian
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Posted: 30 June 2003 at 4:08pm |
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Hmm.... I basicaly picked the PHP essentials up in a week, I disagree and think they are very similar, just slightly different syntaxes!
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pmormr
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Posted: 30 June 2003 at 4:48pm |
do you need to run anything special on your server to run php scripts
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ljamal
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Posted: 30 June 2003 at 5:16pm |
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You'll need to go to PHP.net and download PHP so that you can install it on your server.
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Gullanian
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Posted: 30 June 2003 at 5:44pm |
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the installer is dead simple, it configures everything for you, in theory. worked for me, 2 minuites i had php on my personal server, and i also run asp.net, asp, perl, and have SQL server database, access and mySQL.
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Bluefrog
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Posted: 01 July 2003 at 7:59am |
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I feel inspired... I'm off to go download, install, and give PHP a spin...
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pmormr
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Posted: 01 July 2003 at 10:46am |
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i need a backup language anyway. I've been working on ASp for almost a year now: time to learn a new language!
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ASP vs. PHP and Learning curve?