Learn PHP of ASP: that is the question

[voltage2k]

I am college senior who is a French major but works for the IT department which gives an unique niche. Anyway the french department wants me to write a webbased french placement exam for the department to replace the current exam.
The questions in short is should I learn PHP or ASP? Is there a way for PHP to authenticate to a Win2k server? or is ASP my only option? I also have no real programming experience. Also where should i look to learn PHP and ASP?

Thanks for your help.

 

[RSMemphis]

What's the webserver? If it is IIS on Win2k (and I assume it is), go ASP. It's much less of a hassle.
Otherwise, PHP runs well under Windows.

For learning ASP, I would strongly suggest you go over to the CS department, and ask them for help. Having someone there to help you out later will be good, but for now they should be able to recommend a book or two - they should either have something in the dept., or send you to the library.

Basically, ASP is a lot like Visual Basic, as far as I remember.

Finally, look at code snippets from other people, and copy/paste what you can. Start for example here or http://www.aspin.com/

 

[notfred]

ASP is not a language.

 

[RSMemphis]

No, they are "Active Server Pages"... You still need to know how to fill them, and then you gotta program...

*cough* nitpick *cough* 😉

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: RSMemphis
No, they are "Active Server Pages"... You still need to know how to fill them, and then you gotta program...

*cough* nitpick *cough* 😉

Yeah, but you can write ASP in several different languages, not just VBscript.

 

[HamSupLo]

is there any big advantage to going to ASP.net over regular ASP?

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: jooksing
is there any big advantage to going to ASP.net over regular ASP?

Far too many to note in a single thread (or book).

If you have a choice then there is no choice.