Converting ASP to PHP?

[Irene]

I was wondaring if PHP can do everything that ASP can? & does PHP have a "file system object" allowing you to alter and create files on the web server?

[Cyryl]

Hi..
You can do all the things you want to do with PHP. In fact sometimes programming in ASP could be very limiting. While PHP is a similar language but have a lot more features and flexibility. You have the option to convert your ASP scripts without doing everything from scratch again.

[Giovanni]

Firstly, php has many functions for the handling and creation of files, including manipluation of images. PHP doesn't really have a FileSystemObject like ASP, and it's more like C++: fopen, fclose, fputs, fgets, etc -- it's more of a laborous task to create, open, move files, etc but it's more fun.

[Cyryl]

Well said Giovanni, being a programmer i would have to say that PHP coding is better than ASP coding in numerous respects including the handling of classes, databases resources, etc, but that's a whole other subject. If there is an ASP->PHP convertor I wouldn't trust it -- you'd be better off learning PHP from scratch.

[Irene]

Well thanks for your replies guys!
I have already started learning PHP!