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With every web developer we tend to concentrate on one specific area especially when it comes to server side programming. But when first starting out we like to pick a language which is not to complex, easy to build upon and flexible.

Most new web developers tend to start with PHP, its easy to learn, it is free to host and a pretty reliable programming language which is getting slightly bloated now because of the constant changes. In this article I will be giving my options on two of the most popular server side languages open source PHP and Microsoft’s ASP.NET

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As my Job is an ASP developer but my hobby is PHP I am constantly clashing with many issues between the both.  I am working on a project that deals with many array loops and conditions and shifting values between the indexes. This is one of the main pitfalls when working with classic ASP. Working with arrays turns half an hour job into a whole morning because with PHP, while it is quite messy it is packed full of routines and functions to handle arrays easily and effectively such as array_map and push.

One of the jobs is to create a function splitting a textbox form values into individual variables then inserted into database.  Why? it is a long story. It feels more like reverse engineering rather than making something which was pratical. It is quite complex to sort and validate without PHP’s useful functions.