asp.net vs. php

[th1chsn]

Hello, I'm looking to get into some backend web development and I am bouncing around the idea of learing asp versus php. I am leaning towards php because I am new to all this but I would like to know what some developers out there think.

Are there any benefits to learning one over the other?

[isitreal]

I learned ASP first, when it was asp 3, then Microsoft decided to switch their whole programming framework to .net, they do a switch like this every 4 or 5 years.

Since I didn't feel like following microsoft's latest decisions on how I should program the rest of my life, I switched to PHP, and found, much to my amazement, that every single thing that had bugged me about asp was gone, since the people who make php are the people who use it, which tends to mean that the things you want exist, since an open source project is easy to add features to.

For money, asp might have an edge over php since corporatations like staying with their full ms packages, but I wouldn't do that work anyway so no big loss.

[stevenmusumeche]

I have programmed in both and much prefer PHP. It just FEELS GOOD. :)

However, if you are going the corporate route, ASP is more widely used. If you are doing this for yourself or a company that you control and/or own, then PHP would be an excellent choice. OSS is wonderful.

[Easy_Coder]

Choose the language that best suits the needs of your application.

[bcolflesh]

I use PHP whenever I can/the situation warrants it -

If you are learning w/an eye towards getting a job, you'll have a lot more jobs to choose from with the .NET knowledge.