Why Use PHP? There are thousands of programming languages
available and every year, new programs are being made. But only
few of these have become sufficiently popular and are used by
many people. One of which is PHP or hypertext preprocessor. It
is a general-purpose server-side scripting language designed for
web development. It is installed on more than 20 million web
sites and 1 million web servers. Microsoft’s Active Server Page
or ASP, a server-side script engine and a similar language to
PHP, is one of PHP’s competitors. They are both programming
languages that are commonly used to create websites. Both are
more dynamic than the usual static html web pages and can allow
users to interact and exchange information. Here are some
factors to consider in choosing between PHP and ASP. ASP needs a
Microsoft server for the website to work and will be requiring
an ASP-Apache program installed for it to work on a Linux
platform. PHP, on the other hand, runs using Windows, Solaris,
Linux or Unix and NT servers. Th