spade89 Member Posts: 561 From: houston,tx Registered: 11-28-2006 |
hey,guys i know a bit of jsp and i don't know any php, and i wanted to know which technology you think is better php or jsp? ------------------ |
kenman Member Posts: 518 From: Janesville WI Registered: 08-31-2006 |
You will find more information on .php. I think you may find it harder to find servers with .jsp installed, virtually every good server has .php 4.0 installed. |
SSquared Member Posts: 654 From: Pacific Northwest Registered: 03-22-2005 |
They are different. You need to decide which one is best for your needs. PHP is terrific when paired with MySQL and used for database driven, dynamic web pages. It's fairly easy to use and there are plenty of web sites with tutorials. PHP is geared towards web development. I recommend using PHP 5 as it moves into the world of Object Oriented Programming (OOP), which is extremely beneficial to learn. JSP gives you access to the Java language, which, obviously, offers you quite a lot of functionality not present in PHP. If you have more powerful requirements and require lots of underlying business logic rules, then JSP may be more what you need. In either case, you will need a server running. Both of these run well with Apache. For database, I recommend MySQL. Earlier this year I installed Apache, MySQL, and PHP on my computer and it was fairly straightforward. If you want to do mainly database driven, dynamic web pages, then PHP is really well suited for this. The API set to MySQL is terrific. And there is plenty of information regarding PHP on the web (not nearly so true with JSP). Regarding jobs, I see plenty of jobs for PHP, Apache, MySQL needed. I don't really see companies asking specifically for JSP programmers, although I'm sure there are many out there. In the end, I guess I would choose PHP. Sorry for being so long-winded. I kind of wrote out my thoughts and you are reading them unfolding. |
jestermax Member Posts: 1064 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: 06-21-2006 |
i'm generally one of the few here that promotes Java, but in this case, i would suggest checking out ASP.NET. You can get Visual Web Developer Express and SQL Server Express (and the SQL Manager) all for free. so development is cheap, and you can do some crazy things right out of the box. I've used JSP along with EJBs and JEE and its a lot of manual labour compared to ASP.NET (or it is in my experience so far) |
samw3 Member Posts: 542 From: Toccoa, GA, USA Registered: 08-15-2006 |
I code in php personally and jsp professionally. The reason for PHP is dirt cheap web hosting. If you can, learn to code them both. There is not much difference in syntax structure. They are both curly-langs. ------------------ |
bwoogie Member Posts: 380 From: kansas usa Registered: 03-12-2005 |
i've never coded in jsp. but i do like php. alot...  ------------------ |
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spade89 Member Posts: 561 From: houston,tx Registered: 11-28-2006 |
i don't code in php,but i really like jsp,it adds soap,and other java stuff to you pages. ------------------ |
