Archive for December 26th, 2007
PHP - Poor Man’s ASP?
Do you believe in the title? If yes, you might not have ever worked on PHP. When I started learning Web Development in 2001, I badly needed to move ahead of boring static pages and wanted to learn Dynamic page generation. Obvious answer was ASP as there were a lot of books available on it, but problem was that the Personal Web Server that came with Windows 95 did not support ASP. Win 95 in 2001 sounds absurd but it was that time when I believed that Windows 98 was nothing more than Windows 95 + IE 4.01. Then I found OmniHTTPd in one of the PC Quest magazine’s CD, which had a PHP version included. Fact that PHP had no (or very little) books written for it was not a problem as the PHP documentation was more than enough to start working on it, and so I did. After upgrading to Win98 though, I moved to ASP (Win98 had PWS 4.0 supporting ASP) and returned to PHP in 2004.
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