Posted by google on 10/23/60 11:40

Hello Jacob,

When I started learning a scriping language, it was because I wanted to
add extra functionality to my web sites. Since PHP was supported by my
web host, that's where I started. I've continued down that route for
several years and have found that PHP, in combination with Javascript
and MySQL, has been entirely sufficient for every project I've worked
on. From what I understand about ASP and Coldfusion, they probably
would have worked well, too. Here's a couple of pros to PHP:

1. Pretty portable. Most hosts support PHP, even the cheapest ones and
many of the free ones, so it's cheap to get your feet wet. ASP and
Coldfusion hosts tend to be a little more expensive.
2. PHP has a good support network. Lots of good forum discussion and a
lot of experts willing to help you out.
3. PHP is flexible. ASP has the same kind of flexibility, but ASP.NET
gets a little more burdensome. The people I know who use ASP.NET swear
by it, becuase they can re-use and re-combine their code, but you can
accomplish the same things in PHP and you get the bonus of just thowing
in a PHP function here and there if you need something small without
creating a class or making sure you're using the right namespaces.

I hope that helps. Have fun!

Chris S.
Implied By Design
http://www.impliedbydesign.com
Free Web Development Programs and Scripts
http://www.impliedbydesign.com/free-software-scripts.html

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