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Why PHP?

Ok so you want to create a dynamic website and you don't know how to start. Now here, you should first select what language to use and I suggest you go PHP. So why PHP? Why not go with ASP? Well, this may be debated a lot and many favors PHP over ASP. And what is PHP anyway? PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. Back again to the question why choose PHP over ASP? I will answer that in my own opinion base on my experiences and knowledge of the language. First, PHP is an open source, having a very huge support community, you can always ask solution to problems in your codes whenever you ran into one. Also, in my opinion (which is actually proven), PHP codes runs much faster than ASP because it runs in its own memory space while ASP uses an overhead server and a COM based architecture. Less Expensive Softwar...