Which is better PHP or ASP.NET ?

[Anna]

Nowadays web-site developers have a great amount of language technologies to create web-sites. According to statistic the PHP and the ASP.NET are the most popular, but which one is better and easier? If you'd worked in developing web applications which platfform would you have chose? Share your experience and opinions!

 

[Hostname.club]

PHP is using by many open source projects while ASP.NET has limited
I prefer PHP for any website, project and application

 

[hoangvu]

hoangvu

I agree with Hostname but ASP.NET has limited, I have not ever heard about that, I'd like to know what limitations you are saying to?

 

[Hassan]

PHP can do everything that ASP.NET can, and it can do it for free.

 

[ElixantTechnology]

ElixantTechnology

Not only can PHP do everything that ASP.NET can, but it can do so much more. I am proud to say that when it was popular and still being worked on, I utilized PHP-GTK. So many possibilities.

 

[Quadrivium]

ASP is so 1990's! Stay with the LAMP stack and avoid Microsoft if you can. It's just less of an overall a headache in the long run.

 

[elcidofaguy]

Indeed PHP gets my vote!!! For newbies it may be a little harder to get used to as MS provides some really great IDE's such as visual studio which makes coding that much easier... I personally use notepad++ when coding PHP and it does the job- albeit a pain when attempting to solve runtime problems... That aside PHP is easy to learn and best of all is the sheer number of open source stuff that you can leverage as well as use of MySQL which is an awesome database platform and in my opinion far superior to SQL Server....