Why should you want to use Active Server Pages or PHP and what’s the difference? PHP is a server-side scripting language that’s cross-platform compatible, embedded in HTML, lets you create dynamic web pages on the fly for the UNIX (Linux) or Windows platform. It’s comparable to Active Server Pages which run on Windows platforms. All you need to run PHP is for it to be installed and enabled on your server, and some PHP code in your page(s), saved with the extension .php. Both platforms allow you to create dynamic pages. Dynamic pages are executed by pulling data off the server and creating pages ‘on-the-fly’ as they are requested, instead of being parsed in the browser like static pages. They are extremely quick and most of the routine tasks associated with displaying content and information can be automated.