DreamerX Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 Hi. While I am on my way to learn PHP, one of my friends told me you stop what are you going to learn!. She told me that I should pick up ASP.NET and one of .Net languages. I said why! and she said that it's more secure and will have better future! What do you think? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/216197-php-or-net/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinM1 Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 ASP.NET isn't more secure than PHP. Web security is 9/10ths how a site is written, not which language was used to write it. Also, PHP is free and ubiquitous - it's not going anywhere. The smart thing to do is learn both. That way you can earn a living regardless of the server side technologies used. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/216197-php-or-net/#findComment-1123616 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamerX Posted October 18, 2010 Author Share Posted October 18, 2010 Thank you. Which one do you think should I learn first and why? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/216197-php-or-net/#findComment-1123619 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinM1 Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 Thank you. Which one do you think should I learn first and why? There's no set answer. What is more popular in your area? PHP generally has a much easier learning curve, but that doesn't matter much if there aren't any PHP jobs in your area. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/216197-php-or-net/#findComment-1123659 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamerX Posted October 19, 2010 Author Share Posted October 19, 2010 I don't care about jobs. I want to learn one of them to esablish my own freelance service! Which one in this case you recommened? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/216197-php-or-net/#findComment-1123666 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinM1 Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 I don't care about jobs. I want to learn one of them to esablish my own freelance service! Which one in this case you recommened? Even if you freelance there's a good chance you'll be working with existing code at some point. Also, if a particular area leans towards one or the other, your clients will expect a certain price point and interoperability with other existing systems. Finally, depending where you live, it may not be feasible for you to live solely on freelance work. For a lot of devs freelancing is a means of generating extra income, not a career in and of itself. If you're truly aiming to be self-sufficient, you'll need to understand your local economic environment. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/216197-php-or-net/#findComment-1123685 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamerX Posted October 19, 2010 Author Share Posted October 19, 2010 In my area, the companies use ASP.NET. Other small projects and peoples' websites use PHP. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/216197-php-or-net/#findComment-1123697 Share on other sites More sharing options...
awjudd Posted October 26, 2010 Share Posted October 26, 2010 ASP.NET has lots of stuff already built-in for you ... so that can be both helpful and detrimental to your learning ... For example, ASP.NET has their membership provider so that in a matter of about 10 lines of code, you can have a complete login script done with user roles and everything. Whereas to do something similar in PHP, you need to do it manually. ~judda Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/216197-php-or-net/#findComment-1126691 Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 Whereas to do something similar in PHP, you need to do it manually. Or use a well established framework. That's a difference, .Net is a framework not a language itself. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/216197-php-or-net/#findComment-1127055 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinM1 Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 Whereas to do something similar in PHP, you need to do it manually. Or use a well established framework. That's a difference, .Net is a framework not a language itself. Exactly. When people say .NET, they generally mean ASP.NET with either VB (yuck) or C# (yay) as the actual programming language. For the web itself it's usually ASP.NET MVC 2 with C# and Entity Framework 4. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/216197-php-or-net/#findComment-1127622 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leftfield Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 Asp.net development is harder to learn because you have to learn C# , asp.net . The development of asp.net application is a lot faster than php ... if you know how it works Php is use on 60 - 70 % of websites so if you are going to create a application to be embedded in websites go for php Id recommend ASP.net Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/216197-php-or-net/#findComment-1171958 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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