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ultimateboatrentals
Joined: Mar 02, 2005
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Posted: 2005-Mar-05 02:04
Is there any oopinion whether or not it is better to use PHP or ASP for a database driven website? I am specifically speaking to the sites ability to be found by google, yahoo, etc... From what I have read, PHP seems much more simple and therefore easier for google to find. The URLs in ASP sites seem much longer and even longer are the URLs for JSP sites...Is it in fact true that PHP is better for database sites?
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Curious_Mark
Joined: Dec 02, 2001
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Posted: 2005-Mar-05 20:57
What you sue to develop with in terms of scripting like ASP, or PHP does not itself affect search engine optimizing efforts unless design errors created barriers.
For me there are two great reasons to select using PHP, money and deployablity. If you decide to use ASP, then you are locked into a Windows server environment which tend to be more expensive than a server Running Apache and PHP which are free and developed by a world-wide, active, skilled community of Open Source developers.
The deployability advantage is certainly there as so many servers and hosts use Apache and PHP because they can keep costs down associated with license fees and put their money into hardware. Now not all hosts are created equal, but from my perspective, PHP is still the way to go if you are a small business owner. Windows solutions of course can be great and there are many well trained ASP developers, but this route is often more costly and in that sense prohibitive to many business people who need to hire consultants to build for them.
Again your database driven site will only be as good as all the parts of the puzzle. You could have an excellent Windows developer make a top quality MS-SQL database driven site that outperforms a poorly designed one no matter what the software behind it. PHP integrates very well with MySQL, an open source relational database that has astounding performance ability. A PHP/MySQL solution when well designed and authored will give you a product to rival anything else out there. The advantages in terms of money saved is often significant or certainly worth looking into.
I do caution you to investigate the quality and afford-ability of consultants you could work with on your project. You need to make sure you are confident that the developers will be around to maintain your product and that they build in a best practises fashion so that others who work on the product later can do so. Nothing worse than poorly documented applications when the person who wrote them leaves and somebody tries to hit the ground running and figure out what the heck goes with what. This can happen with any development technology and developer.
Perhaps in the workforce aspect of the consideration Micro$oft based solutions have an edge as the trained workforce is considerable and certification while not perfect, tends to develop more consistent development practices.
Just my thoughts.
[ Message was edited by: Curious_Mark 03/05/2005 01:08 pm ]
[ Message was edited by: Curious_Mark 03/05/2005 01:09 pm ]
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