🆚 ASP vs. PHP

Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP, also known as "classic" ASP) is a server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. It was developed by Microsoft from 1996 to 2000 and now superseded by ASP.NET.

PHP (originally named "Personal Home Page" and now defined as the recursive acronym "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor") is a widely used server-side scripting language for building dynamic web applications.

It features dynamic typing, flexible string interpolation, garbage collection, a large standard library, built-in handling of sessions, cookies, forms, and file uploads, native integration with numerous databases, and, since PHP 8, additional improvements such as just-in-time compilation, union types, attributes, and enums.

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Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• 🥇 Most popular in China in the Legacy category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Macao in the Legacy category.
• 🥉 Third most popular in Korea in the Legacy category.
• 🥉 Third most popular in Hong Kong in the Legacy category.
• 🥉 Third most popular in Israel in the Legacy category.

• 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Platforms category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Platforms category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Platforms category.
• 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Platforms category.
• 🥇 Most popular in France in the Platforms category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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