Hi I'm a new member. And I would like to ask what is .asp and .php. What's the difference between them and .html? Thanks.
Regards,
Michael FooMichael,
I'll give you a quick run down of ASP, and perpaps one of the other moderators will fill you in on php.
ASP or Active Server Pages is a windows based technology that combines with Microsofts web server to serve up web pages. The web server comes directly with the windows based operating system(though you need to set it up).
Using ASP you can provide dynamic content, that is-content that can change depending on the user input. It has much the same capability as CGI/ Perl, and PHP. The main differece here is that it is run on a windows based platform. There is a much limited version (ChiliSoft) that runs on UNIX.
You still code HTML pages for use in ASP, they just now have the .asp extention. They also use a server side scripting language embedded into them....which can be javaScript/perlScript/ vbScript....to execute things behind the scenes from the web browser. All the server side code never gets rendered by the browser (unless specifically told to do so).
This probably all sounds a little confusing, but the main thing is this:
HTML does things right in your browser...on your computer.
Server side technologies, such as ASP, have the ability to do things on the SERVER computer.....and can actually create different HTML pages, depending on the surfers choices and actions.
They can read and write to databases. Display current information in realtime. Can process forms and send information to users through email. They pretty much take an ordinary HTML page, and make it extraordinary. I would suggest learning at least one server side language along with HTML.Hey,
If you are still interested in PHP, I highly recommend it. It's just as powerful or more powerful than ASP and it's FREE!!! Check out this link:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.php.net/tut.php">http://www.php.net/tut.php</a><!-- m -->
Let me know if you have any questions.<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://php.weblogs.com/php_asp_7_reasons">http://php.weblogs.com/php_asp_7_reasons</a><!-- m -->
Regards,
Michael FooMichael,
I'll give you a quick run down of ASP, and perpaps one of the other moderators will fill you in on php.
ASP or Active Server Pages is a windows based technology that combines with Microsofts web server to serve up web pages. The web server comes directly with the windows based operating system(though you need to set it up).
Using ASP you can provide dynamic content, that is-content that can change depending on the user input. It has much the same capability as CGI/ Perl, and PHP. The main differece here is that it is run on a windows based platform. There is a much limited version (ChiliSoft) that runs on UNIX.
You still code HTML pages for use in ASP, they just now have the .asp extention. They also use a server side scripting language embedded into them....which can be javaScript/perlScript/ vbScript....to execute things behind the scenes from the web browser. All the server side code never gets rendered by the browser (unless specifically told to do so).
This probably all sounds a little confusing, but the main thing is this:
HTML does things right in your browser...on your computer.
Server side technologies, such as ASP, have the ability to do things on the SERVER computer.....and can actually create different HTML pages, depending on the surfers choices and actions.
They can read and write to databases. Display current information in realtime. Can process forms and send information to users through email. They pretty much take an ordinary HTML page, and make it extraordinary. I would suggest learning at least one server side language along with HTML.Hey,
If you are still interested in PHP, I highly recommend it. It's just as powerful or more powerful than ASP and it's FREE!!! Check out this link:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.php.net/tut.php">http://www.php.net/tut.php</a><!-- m -->
Let me know if you have any questions.<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://php.weblogs.com/php_asp_7_reasons">http://php.weblogs.com/php_asp_7_reasons</a><!-- m -->