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Martin Halford	19 Sep 2000 11:43
Steven Schoch	19 Sep 2000 14:02
Martijn Meerts	20 Sep 2000 02:05
PeterWR	20 Sep 2000 03:16

Subject:	Sv: mySQL, myODBC and Active Server Pages
From:	PeterWR (pw...@post4.tele.dk)
Date:	09/20/2000 03:16:29 AM
List:	com.mysql.lists.win32

When You have the experience from ColdFusion, PHP, etc. - You have the skill for
reaching a solution. There is not much difference for reaching a solution in
ASP.

Buy the "SAMS Active Server Pages in 21 days" - then You know everything about
ASP, and for even less than 21 days.

One of the strong issues about ASP is, that (explained very shortly) it is some
"database I/O rules", some "web-server I/O and commands", and completed with MS
VisualBasic language when needed.

You can do exactly what You want, and how You want.

I have been running IIS 4.0, MySQL and ASP for some years now, without any
problem (except what I make myself).

Best regards Peter W. Rasmussen Copenhagen Denmark

I've been using (and still am using) asp, php and coldfusion.. The learning curve is by far the easiest for coldfusion (i thaught myself the basics in 2 weeks), php is pretty easy as well (i was doing database stuff after 4 weeks) but asp took me the most time to learn. This was probably also because i didn't really know any scripting languages at that time.

If it comes to speed and power, i would go for either coldfusion or php. Coldfusion is very powerfull, and very configurable, the downside is that it's rather expensive, because you need to buy it. On the other hand, php can do just about the same stuff, you just need to write some more code and spend some more time.

Either way, it's a good thing to learn a new language, especially since asp will be cut off and transformed into asp+. I read some stuff on that, but it's like learning a new language, having a lot of new and different stuff compared to the current asp version.

Hope this helps..

-----Original Message----- From: sch...@homer.starnet.com [mailto:sch...@homer.starnet.com]On Behalf Of Steven Schoch Sent: 19. september 2000 23:03 To: Martin Halford Cc: win...@lists.mysql.com; myo...@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: mySQL, myODBC and Active Server Pages

Martin Halford wrote:

The alternative would be PHP4 and mySQL on a Cobalt RAQ server, but I would have the learning curve on PHP4?

IMHO, the PHP learning curve is small compared to the benefits of using a system that will give you less headaches. I learned PHP by looking at the on-line manual at http://www.php.net. (Ok, I did already know a bit of perl and a lot of C, but the PHP language is easy to learn.) This setup also gives you the advantage of using a software suite (Linux or FreeBSD + Apache + PHP + MySQL) that is completely open source and supported by a large user group.

You can check out some of my elementary PHP scripts that I wrote and evolved over a period of a couple years. (And no, web design is not my main job.) A PHP script that prompts a browser for his name, email, and organization type is at http://www.starnet.com/download/. It checks a table to see if we already mailed him a demo license, and sends him an email with a link that "unlocks" his entry in our "demo download" table. When he visits that link, it gets a list of our download sites from another table and remembers from which links he downloaded. It stores his ID in a cookie so he doesn't have to fill out the form again the next time he returns, but it still works if cookies are disabled.

I wrote another PHP script that allows a user to create his own online price quote at http://www.starnet.com/quote/. Go ahead, take a look at it, and give it a try. (Use "nob...@testing.com" as your email address if you don't want to get email from us.)

If you like any of these, let me know and I can show you the relatively simply PHP scripts behind them.

BTW, I have never used ASP. I am interested in hearing from people who have used both ASP and PHP if you think my comments are correct. Is it easy to do a simple conversion from a .asp to a .php file?

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