PHP Vs. ASP
ASP is said to be a slower and more cumbersome language than PHP, less stable as well. The biggest drawback of ASP is that it’s a proprietary system that is natively used only on Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS). The components built in ASP are really limited, so if you need to use “advanced” features like interacting with FTP servers, you need to buy additional components.

PHP Vs. Coldfusion
PHP runs on almost every platform there is; Cold Fusion is only available on Win32, Solaris, Linux and HP/UX. Cold Fusion has a good IDE and is generally easier to get started with, whereas PHP initially requires more programming knowledge. Cold Fusion is designed with non-programmers in mind, while PHP is focused on programmers. So, we expect the best programming with PHP.

PHP Vs. Perl
Perl is really hard to write code; actually PERL loses flexibility in coding and thus makes tough while editing the code. PHP has a less confusing and stricter format without losing flexibility. PHP is easier to integrate into existing HTML than Perl. PHP has pretty much all the ‘good’ functionality of Perl: constructs, syntax and so on, without making it as complicated as Perl can be. Perl is a very tried and true language, it’s been around since the late eighties, but PHP is maturing very quickly.

Thanks for above given information.Could you please let us know

1)How fast is PHP compared with other scripting languages ?

and

2)Is PHP compatible with PEAR DB and Oracle databases ?

Thanks and Regards,
Mike S.