What is ASP?

[plivez]

Hi all,
New forum member here.

I wonder if you can help me.

I have been designing websites using Dreamweaver for a few years now and am very happy using it.

I have recently come across Microsoft asp, but do not get it.
What is it all about, do I need to learn it, is it the next big thing?

I dowloaded Visual Web Developer, but it is not exactly intuitive.

[aso186]

ASP (Active Server Pages) is simply a server-side programming language, along with the likes of PHP, JSP, Coldfusion and so forth.

It's a very powerful tool for building dynamic websites, usually with the help of a database, that serves the user content based on a query or request.

This forum is a perfect example of server-side programming. This page does not exist as a physical file - the URL address provides the server with information, and the server-side language puts together HTML to send to the browser.

Moved to ASP Forum

[Monie]

Originally Posted by plivez

Hi all,
I have been designing websites using Dreamweaver for a few years now and am very happy using it.

Are you designing a static website, or just a plain basic HTML with some javascript? If yes, then you should move on to learn some server side language like ASP or the most popular one is PHP.

Originally Posted by plivez

I have recently come across Microsoft asp, but do not get it.
What is it all about, do I need to learn it, is it the next big thing?

I dowloaded Visual Web Developer, but it is not exactly intuitive.

ASP is not the next big thing! The language itself can be consider an old version by Microsoft. The next big thing in Microsoft based scripting language is the ASP.NET. I would suggest that you skip ASP and start learn PHP because it is much more easy and fun to learn.

What ASP and PHP really means is the ability for your page to interact with a database (MSSQL or MySQL). If you use a basic HTML, you won't be able to do that.

You can learn both of this language from w3schools under server scripting menu.

Cheers...

[quicker]

Originally Posted by Monie

Are you designing a static website, or just a plain basic HTML with some javascript? If yes, then you should move on to learn some server side language like ASP or the most popular one is PHP.



ASP is not the next big thing! The language itself can be consider an old version by Microsoft. The next big thing in Microsoft based scripting language is the ASP.NET. I would suggest that you skip ASP and start learn PHP because it is much more easy and fun to learn.

What ASP and PHP really means is the ability for your page to interact with a database (MSSQL or MySQL). If you use a basic HTML, you won't be able to do that.

You can learn both of this language from w3schools under server scripting menu.

Cheers...

Thanks for that useful link.

[Marc]

People say that PHP is better than ASP.NET; it isnt really from a business's perspective - maybe from a Web Designers view it is.

Generally a business uses Microsoft OS's and there are many advantages to ASP.NET when using a Microsoft OS. Such as Active Directory, so on and so forth.

So, it depends what you want to do with ASP? If your looking to just play around with some websites and some programming language, choose PHP, it's much easier...

[Monie]

I love PHP, so in love with it until I left my ASP world