Originally posted here by hiddeninclouds
I've worked with php and asp.net and i like the feel of php much more. ASP.NET seems too mixed in with html, plus php is free! and works nicely with mySQL, and you can't go wrong with open source
Not at all. With the coming of ASP.Net the html and the actual code (ie vb, c# etc... ) is totally seprate. This is called "Code behind". As far as PHP, I know nothing about. But i have worked with ASP.Net and find it very secure and the community behind it is awsome... u can find help fast and easy online when u hit a bump in the road. The .Net framework is extremly powerful and is just in the baby steps of becoming the way the web development on the professional level will be done. Yes, more power to PHP... its free etc..... But don't dismiss the power behind microsoft and their future strategists. Microsoft is on top and therefor everyone will try and challege and undermind there ground breaking technology.

If you are trying to find out which one to learn, then my answer would be: "Learn them both" this will make u a more marketable programmer/web guy than alot of other poeple. I am going to learn PHP but I will not let my ASP.Net skills go un-noticed.