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I have a client that needs a Website that can access data from MS Excel files and then display charts and graphs online. &nbsp;They need to be dynamically generated based on user input.<br />
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Is this possible using PHP or is it preferable and easier to do it using ASP.NET?
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I have a client that needs a Website that can access data from MS Excel files and then display charts and graphs online.  They need to be dynamically generated based on user input.

Is this possible using PHP or is it preferable and easier to do it using ASP.NET?

PHP versus ASP.NET - Dynamically Displaying MS Excel Charts and Graphs Online

PHP is a widely-used server-side scripting language especially suited for web development, powering tens of millions of sites from Facebook to personal WordPress blogs. PHP is often paired with the MySQL relational database, but includes support for most other mainstream databases. By utilizing different Server APIs, PHP can work on many different web servers as a server-side scripting language.

The successor to Active Server Pages, ASP.NET websites utilize the .NET framework to produce dynamic, data and content-driven web applications and services. ASP.NET code can be written using any .NET supported language. As of 2009, ASP.NET can also apply the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern to web applications

ASP.NET

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