Today, many frameworks are available in the market but Dot NET and PHP are the most adopted ones amongst all. In this article, we have compared two most used frameworks in the market – Dot NET and PHP. This will help organizations and developers to choose best amongst them. What Is Dot NET Framework:
Dot NET software development framework is developed by Microsoft Company that basically works on Microsoft Windows. It was introduced in the late 1990s and the latest version of this framework – Dot NET 4.5 was released in August month, 2012 which is distributed with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
What Is PHP Framework:
PHP is an open source server side scripting language used basically for building dynamic web pages. The latest release of PHP version 6 is expected to release in a near future.
The Fundamental Differences Between Dot NET And PHP
• Dot NET is not a language. Dot NET is a framework that can be incorporated along with many languages whereas PHP is a HTML embedded scripting language.
• Dot NET runs only on windows or IIS whereas PHP runs on any Operating system and HTTP server
• Dot NET is not an open technology. Dot NET requires upgrading the hardware and spending money for software licenses. But PHP is an open technology. PHP is free of cost and available free on web.
• Dot NET can work better with MYSQL server and Dot NET uses ODBC for others, in the other hand PHP can support many databases both open sources as well as commercial.
• Dot NET is not that easy, whereas PHP is easily learnable and understandable.
• Dot NET supports OOPS paradigm and OOPS concepts but whereas PHP does not implement OOPS concepts.
• Above all Dot Net is slow when compared to PHP.
Thus, both has its own pros and cons. So, which would be better depends on what you are going to be doing with it, and what languages or frameworks you have already gained experience with.
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