PHP vs Asp.Net VS JSP VS CFML
ASP – Pages for Active Server, JSP – Pages for Java Server, CFML – Language for Cold Fusion The following table compares PHP to several languages on the server-side
| FEATURE | PHP | ASP | JSP | CFML |
|---|
| Learning curve | short | Longer than PHP | Longer than PHP | Longer than PHP |
| Web hosting | Supported by almost all hosting servers | Needs dedicated server | Fairly supportedFairly supported | Needs dedicated server |
| Open source | Yes | No | Yes | Both commercial and open source |
| Web services support | Built in | Uses the .NET framework | Uses add on libraries | Built in |
| Integration with HTML | Easy | Fairly complex | Fairly complex | Easy |
| MySQL support | Native | Needs third party drivers | Needs third party drivers | Current version has native support. Older versions use ODBC |
| Easily extended by other languages | Yes | No | Extended using Java classes and libraries. | Yes |
