ASP & pagerank VS PHP & pagerank

[Raymond]

My site runs ASP and query contents from a database. My site is fully indexed and the main ASP pages with NO querystring do receive decent PR. However, none of my other pages that have "?xyz=xyz&cat=xyz" receive any PR. None, zilch. Even that many of these links are right under a PR5 page. (My querystrings are short, and not more than 2 variables and I already stay away from making any variable names containing "id")

Derekwong has mentioned that php pages do receive PR as normal. Can someone confirm this? I am thinking of rewriting a huge section of my site in PHP just because of this issue. If someone can prove me wrong about ASP with querystring not being able to receive PR, can you show me a link that has PR?

I am on a shared hosting environment. I cannot do any mod rewrite or url filtering.

[txbakers]

QueryStrings are QueryStrings regardless of the language.

Spiders don't care if it's PHP or ASP or JSP or PL or CGI. Spiders only read the resulting HTML that's produced by the scripting engines.

It doesn't matter.

[Raymond]

txbakers, thats what I used to believe. It only makes sense.

But I have seen PHP pages with querystrings that HAVE PR. And so far I haven't seen any ASP pages with querystrings that have any PR. It almost sounds superstitious, somehow I am begining to believe it has something to do with the scripting language.

And no, I don't think google treats pages with Querystring the same as just plain HTML. All my pages under the same tree gets PR, EXCEPT for the ones with a short querystring. It does index the HTML generated by the page, but google does not assign PR to the URL. It happens to a number of sites that I have worked on before. Even if the parent page has PR7+, the child pages don't get any.