ASP or PHP 2

[yigalm]

Hi

I want to create a website with a MySQL DB. I need it to perform basic things like adding, deleting, modifying and seaching user records by means of web forms. Also, I want users to be able to anonimously email other users through a web form, and also keep a copy of all correspondence on the site. So what am I better off using ASP or PHP? (I know some ASP, and I heard that PHP is really easy to learn.)

Also, is it possible to accomplish the same with MS Access instead of MySQL (it has a much friendlier interface ?

Thank you!
IM

 

[sleipnir214]

It is, of course, possible to use Access as your website backend, but I strongly recommend against it. Access was designed to be a single-user database system. Although multiple users can manipulate data in a single database simultaneously, this ability is not very robust. MySQL is a very robust application which was engineered from its beginning with the intention of its being a multiuser database server. Also, you aren't going to have that pretty GUI frontend when using Access as the backend to a website.

Unless you are using Microsoft SQL Server as your database backend or you will need to provide very Microsoft-specific functions to your web users, I recommend PHP. PHP is well-rounded, platform agnostic, easy-to-learn scripting language with great online documentation. It also connects natively to MySQL, where ASP would have to use ODBC. ______________________________________________________________________
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