PHP

PHP is the Open Source world's closest equivalent to ASP (today a generic Windows Scripting wrapper).

The base source can be compiled on nearly any platform an there are bindings for a wide variety of HTTP servers, although it is more closely tied to Apache and Linux.

Resources:

Frameworks:

• Cake - a Rails-inspired framework
• Mojavi, one of many MVC frameworks for PHP
• Popoon - another Cocoon-inspired library, for PHP5

Libraries:

• Propel, an object persistence library.
• log4php a port of the log4j Java logging framework
• phpHtmlLib - excellent base toolkit
• http://phpxmlclasses.sourceforge.net/
• myXML
• jpGraph
• PECL packages for:
  • ImageMagick Bindings
  • RADIUS Bindings
• Assertion Reporter - also for JavaScript.
• ColorChip

Of Special Note:

• Nanoweb - PHP as its own HTTP server.
• Turck MMCache (a free Zend-like optimizer)
• eAccelerator - another optimizer
• IlohaMail - neat and efficient webmail

References:

• PHP PEAR on Mac OS X
• Form validation using XHTML markup
• Coding Neural Networks in PHP

See Apache, mod_php, jpGraph, Perl