New project, I need some advice.

I have 2 personal sites that I want to move to a new host. Both are SOLELY HTML. I'm an MS ASP developer by trade and was going to stick with what I know, however, my new host is on a Unix platform and they only support PHP and Apache:ASP. (I know neither.)

Here's my question, what do I do?

I'd like to use Apache:ASP since I at least understand the syntax being referenced, (however I can't get it to work on my new servers). PHP seems to confuse me.

Here are the features in ASP that I'd be using if it was an NT Server.

Response Object
ADO Connections
Querying a SQL/Access DB
Creating a record set
Reading the record set
Displaying the values from the record set.

These are the basic things that I need to do. Can anyone provide some help or insight?

Thanks,

Steve

Apache::ASP, as I understand it, only supports perl- from the docs:


If you want a language you can pick up easily and that's similar to ASP in that it encourages mixing code and HTML (barf, but I work with very large sites - 4000-5000 pages) then look at PHP. Most folks like it.

I personally use HTML::Template, CGI::Application and mod_perl, but that's neither here nor there.

I had printed the PHP "How To" from this site yesterday afternoon. I installed Apache, PHP, and MySql and it's all running smoothly.

To my surprise, it's quite simple. The reason I had thought otherwise was due to a book that I had picked up while at Barnes and Noble. It turned me off.

PHP will definitely solve my problem.

Thanks for the help.

Steve