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ASP or PHP for health and fitness related site?

Okay, common question, but I would still like more points of view:

What's better: ASP (and MS SQL) or PHP (and MySQL)?

The site will hold thousands of user's information and return diets and excercises based on that information...it'll keep track of their weight and other health and fitness related information.

I know it's a pretty general question, but considering the plans of the site, what would you go with?

Thanks!
Kevin

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Joe Wu

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cmhunty

But ASP.NET on the other hand................. :-)

Certainly worth considering. Would cost you no more than if you were considering ASP.

Has a lot of built in features with security being one. Has native libraries for SQL Server.

Pretty easy to learn too.

pepsichris

.Net is pretty easy to learn?! I would have to disagree entirely on that one! You pretty much have to know OOP inside out before you can even start!

PHP or ASP, then if you have a server then you'd be able to connect to a database and start playing on your first day - to have any chance with .Net then you'd need to do a LOT of reading up on it first.

Having said that, it's far more powerful than the other two, and a lot cooler, but I wouldn't recommend jumping in at the deep end with it...

cmhunty

Hmm, yeah, fair enough.