A friend told me that asp was pro and that php was for newbies... I do not know much about these platforms. I just want to confirm what he says. Which is the better platform and why? Can you suggest please?
I think that asp architecture is vastly superior to the way that php runs on most sites. But does it really matter what type of architecture a system is built on if both are good enough?
As for the comment that asp is for pros and php is for noobs, that is one of those dumb statements that would make me question how smart this guy really is.
People program more in PHP then any other language. I highly recommend using PHP over any other language, ASP is very costly and it also runs on windows platform which is not the best operating system for security and does seem to take there time in patching security flaws.
PHP used on most linux/unix platforms, to me.. has better security and performance then anything language, if you set it up correctly. I have worked with rails and it has it's flaws just like any other language. I find php to be the most advanced language for my needs but I do use rails for certain things.