Should I use PHP or JSP for a chat website?

Question

I want to develop a website web chat application like yahoo. Only difference is that I want to make it web based not desktop. I will be implementing it in jsp/php with ajax. I want to know whether jsp or php will be better for this. What will be advantages or disadvantages of both. Which one of the two would you prefer and why?

Will jsp applicatioon will be slower then php? I am thinking of using using struts with jsp and ajax . Will using of struts decrease speed? I know jsp, java and struts but not php. Is php more difficult then jsp?

Answer 1

Use whichever one that you're a better programmer in.

The task can be accomplished in either language just the same. You can argue endlessly about language features, the bottom line will be whatever works best for you.

Answer 2

JSP based web applications are a bit more harder to deploy than PHP based web applications, but you gain the ability of creating Servlets.

PHP requires less server administration skills to setup properly and get running, is fast to learn, and allows fast creation of simple applications.

None is better than the other, they are different in nature. Check your requirements, and take a decision based on that. If your requirements doesn't favor one over the other, choose whichever your team is more comfortable with.

Answer 3

JSP isn't a language - it's just a view/presentation technology - so it's only to build a web Frontend - while the main programming happens somewhere else - in the Java Language, as a so-called Java Servlet.

I personally like Java more, but PHP is okay, and if you only know PHP (which I must assume from the questions :) ) you're better off doing it in PHP now - you can learn Java later...

Apart from that, the others asking for more background info are right - you need to see what technology meets your requirements best...