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Hi, guys! How are you today?

Well, I have got a wee question. My friend told me to study Visual Basic to study ASP. Because they are very simillar. And my school doesn't provide ASP lesson anyway.

But I encountered a problem. ASP doesn't run Linux or Unix server. It will run only windows server, right? Lots fellows told me that they are stick to PHP or SQL.

My school doesn't provide PHP or SQL class. Studying Visual Basic is still good for SQL?
Please give me a couple of tips!!!

Hiroki Kozai

See my post to phortay. Remember that by using www.google.com to search the web, you can find information (training) on nearly anything. A lot of the people here are very good programmers who have never taken a class.

sql is really a language itself...
asp and php just have an interface with a sql server, so that you can sent out sql commands to it.

But honestly,
you do not want to learn sql 'just so'. I have seen tons of horrid sql out there.
So, search a bit for good pages.
devshed.com would be a good starting point.

so long,

Tyberius Prime

Thank you very much.
Have a good day, guys.

Hiroki Kozai

There are ways to get ASP running on a Linux/Unix box.

One company that has an ASP handler for nix servers is Chilisoft (now apparently owned by Sun). Another is InstantASP by Stryon/Halcyon.

I have heard of others, but I don't have links to them. It's also worth bearing in mind that neither of these will be able to cope with ASP as well as IIS does. A lot of ASPs functionality comes from its integration into COM objects and the like. That part really is proprietary Microsoft stuff, and you are probably better off running ASP on IIS, or PHP on Linux.

If you are only looking to learn the basics, then either will do (and you can get Apache/PHP to run on Windows if you want - probably more easily than getting ASP to run on a nix server).