RainbowPortal

[cajun]

Anyone have any experience with RainbowPortal? (content management system) ... http://www.rainbowportal.net/site/1/home.aspx

[stanvman]

I've never tried it, but by looking at the page, it looks like the scripting is driven by ASP.net, which bluehost doesn't support. I'd look elsewhere.

[cajun]

I've never tried it, but by looking at the page, it looks like the scripting is driven by ASP.net, which bluehost doesn't support. I'd look elsewhere.

I see. So, what's the big difference between ASP and PHP ... I hear that both are good, but doesn't it seem that PHP is being used by far more people these days.

[bonz]

ASP (or Active Server Pages) is a Microsoft product found on their .NET platform and comes on only Microsoft Windows servers.

PHP is standard on *nix (eg. unix, linux, BSD, OSX) servers, though you can install it on Windows servers.

There are simply more non-windows servers out there, which is why you hear more about PHP.

Functionally they're similar in that they're both server-side scripting languages.

[cajun]

ASP (or Active Server Pages) is a Microsoft product found on their .NET platform and comes on only Microsoft Windows servers.

PHP is standard on *nix (eg. unix, linux, BSD, OSX) servers, though you can install it on Windows servers.

There are simply more non-windows servers out there, which is why you hear more about PHP.

Functionally they're similar in that they're both server-side scripting languages.

Thanks ... that helps.