asp.net or php for this?

[MBS]

I know there are already a million threads on php vs asp.net. My prior
experience is with asp but I am now doing a website for a company that
has given me free reign over which technology I want to use. I am
developing an online product catalogue with shopping cart etc. Here is
a partial wish list.

1)As mentioned, a shopping cart.
2)A database search feature (to search multiple fields and phrase
occurences within).
3)An admin page for the company to update, modify, and delete records.
4)An admin feature so that a product category recordset can be
downloaded to their PC in an ascii delimited format. This is because
they want to be able to tie-in to the online db to also generate a
print catalogue using Quark.

Based on some of the features desired above, I would appreciate
feedback on which development platform (asp.net vs php) would be
easier to learn/use/implement for the above.

Thanks!
Bailey--

 

[Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\)]

The learning curve is a bit less steep for PHP. If you have access to
VS.NET, however, the build time could be lessened for ASP.NET.

I would find out the params for where the site is hosted, if any. If the
site is on a Windows box, I would head for ASP.NET, as it is likely to
continue to increase in performance. If it is hosted with a provider, you
have free reign.

Having used both, I prefer ASP.NET, but much of my choice is my current
level of expertise and the number of jobs in my market.

--
Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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[gabriel]

Both will do the job, both are easy to use. You have to look at the other
characteristics of each language/platform if you really want to make a good
decision.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

If you're working on a Microsoft platform, using Microsoft technologies, you
would do well to stick with Microsoft. Mixing technologies is problematic.

--
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.

 

[Bailey Struss]

Thanks for the replies. Referring to the web based feature of
downloading to an ascii delimited file, are there any builtin
capabilities within asp.net or php that could be utilized here?