“Every
technology comes with some motive or vision that either creates or
demolishes the future of the technology depending upon its real time
execution! PHP and ASP .NET are two major web domain specific
technologies of the industry, having some common and little uniqueness
within them, which have made them to sustain in the industry till date.
They have different objectives and visions from their inception and they
stick to that to provide their customer base the best in the industry
web solutions. When you are asked to choose one which is better for you;
you need to be cautious enough because both have their advantages with
respect to the requirements of the users; and they both fail to meet the
expectations of the client in some specific cases; because they are not
developed keeping those scenarios as a priority. So, let’s check out
when and where PHP is preferable and when ASP .NET.”
PHP for low cost web development projects:
The most important distinguishing feature about PHP and ASP .NET is the
cost effectiveness. PHP is an open source technology where as ASP .NET
is a proprietary product from Microsoft. Hence the software cost of PHP
is too less than that of ASP .NET. In fact, due to its open source
nature, PHP developers can get adequate rooms to modify the source code
of the language as per their requirements and project demand. Again, the
initial cost of PHP installation is negligible as compared to ASP.NET.
Hence it is often preferred by small website development projects having
limited budget for the development process. Again, the wages of PHP
developers are much less as compared to ASP .NET developers due to its
easy to learn approach that triggers fresher to kick start their career
with PHP at very economic wages. Moreover, due to the open source nature
of PHP, the industry is flooded with large numbers of open source PHP
modules and plug-ins that help in decreasing the development time
significantly. Considering all above situations it is clear that the
development cost of any PHP application is less as compared to ASP .NET.
ASP .NET for large scale web applications:
Though, ASP .NET is not preferred for low budget or static web
projects, but it is having a tremendous demand for large scale web
applications that need high performance, speed and better user
experience. ASP .NET can handle any size of data driven web application
in a hassle free manner without compromising on the quality of the
application. The highly expert teams of Microsoft who have built this
framework are extremely cautious for the optimization and high
efficiency of this framework. The inbuilt libraries, methods and
controls are extremely reliable and stable enough to deal with any type
of complex situation. On the contrary, PHP as a language can’t afford
such amenities for its developers.
Highly customizable and scalable application can be well handled with ASP .NET MVC:
Due to the core MVC Architecture i.e., model view controller scheme,
ASP .NET enables the ASP .NET developers to approach their programming
style in an efficient and systematic manner. It keeps the view part of
the application isolated from the model section by an intermediate
controller. As a result, different components of the application are
loosely coupled with each other and don’t interrupt any other’s
functionality at all. This makes the application more scalable and
customizable in order to provide enhanced user experience. Moreover,
this encourages experienced ASP .NET developers
to follow an Agile approach of web development process for utmost
productivity from the application which is seriously restricted with
PHP.
Programming effort can be decreased drastically with the integration of third party open source PHP modules and plug-ins:
Undoubtedly programming becomes efficient within the ASP .NET IDE, but
the coding effort of a PHP developer can be decreased tremendously due
to availability of readymade modules and plug-ins to be integrated with
any PHP web application. There are millions of open source PHP modules
and plug-ins available in the industry that can be well integrated into
PHP application with a little tweak by the developer. On the other hand,
Microsoft strictly prohibits the integration of any unreliable third
party modules or plug-ins into an ASP .NET application.
Quick web development can be achieved with the ASP .NET framework:
Though, Microsoft never encourages relying on any third party modules
and plug-ins but it offers more than that with its inbuilt mesmerizing
features. ASP .NET is commonly known as "drag and drop" technology. That
means it provides many web contents like form components that can be
easily implemented into the application without any hassle. In fact, it
enables the developer to take the advantage of its inbuilt validation
methods to make the process much easier. As a framework, it also
provides enough inbuilt packages, libraries and controls to craft highly
optimized and efficient web applications on the fly.
High performance and reliable end product is must with ASP .NET:
Since ASP .NET has inbuilt libraries containing large number of
commonly used methods and classes, it makes the web development process
much faster than that of PHP. To add this, those methods and libraries
are developed by the expert team of Microsoft who are highly motivated
in writing extremely optimized and stable codes for those components.
During the development process when the ASP .NET developer calls those
methods or classes, they needn’t to bother about the reliability and
efficiency of those inbuilt stuffs. As a result, the end product
developed with those components is dam reliable and is highly optimized.
Both support all modern amenities but in a different manner:
Modern amenities like integration of JQuery, HTML5, CSS3 and other
interactive plug-ins can be integrated with both PHP and ASP .NET
applications but in different approaches. PHP enables PHP developers to
integrate these amenities manually into their application where as ASP
.NET provides many tools, supports and inbuilt packages to take the
advantages of these amenities. Moreover ASP .NET also provides scope for
crafting highly advanced and contemporary web applications with the
support from its inbuilt emulators for different platforms like Android,
Windows and iOS. As a result, an ASP .NET web developer can create
smart apps for multiple platforms from within the ASP.NET environment.
Finally,
it’s not fair to compare a language with a framework! As discussed
above, we clearly visualize that ASP .NET outperforms PHP in most of the
circumstances and it is obvious as well; because we were trying to
compare an industry leading web framework with a web domain specific
language. If you are looking for expert PHP development services
and are interested to outsource your software development part, then
look no further. Mindfire Solutions has been consistently developing
industry specific applications for more than a decade now.
