Sorry if this is a silly and/or stupid question but... Will there ever be, or would it even be possible to have a PHP.NET? Or have I got the wrong end of the stick?
.NET is a framework that is based on a number of technologies such as CLR and provides an extensive collection well-organized class libraries that are suitable for almost all conceivable functions that are used in Web applications. In addition, it allows you to easily create components that extend the framework.
Although PHP has similar properties, such as PEAR libraries, PHP and ASP.NET are not really identical, because the .NET framework ab ovo on an OOP paradigm and OOP-based approaches, and PHP is not. This difference is most evident in the way, is how to access classes and objects in PHP and ASP.NET.