PHP or ASP with MySQL

[Enigma151]

I want to make a web-based application that interacts with a MySQL database system.
What are the benefits from PHP? What are the benefits from ASP?
Do you need any runtime files for ASP?

 

[mutant]

Both PHP and ASP.NET require runtime files on the server.
If you are getting hosting on Windows platform then ASP is a better choice as PHP was mainly developed for and optimized to work with Linux/Unix. Php was optimized to work with MySQL as the main database for the lanugage. If you want maximum preformance for ASP.NET then I would suggest using MSSQLServer.