Active Server Pages for Dummies

Name: Active Server Pages for Dummies
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ISBN: 9780764501906

ISBN-10: 0764501909

ISBN-13: 9780764501906

Edition: 1st

Authors: Bill Hatfield

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A book/CD-ROM guide to using Microsoft's Internet Information Server or Personal Web Server to create Web sites. Explores basics first, then moves through advanced topics such as objects, accessing the database, and ASP applications. Includes tips and warnings, lists of sites and sources, and appendices on databases. The CD-ROM contains Internet Explorer and other software, plus examples from the book. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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List price: $29.99
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
Binding: CD-ROM
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.452
Language: English

Introduction	p. 1
I Know Who You Are....	p. 1
Why Active Server Pages?	p. 2
How This Book Is Organized	p. 3
ASP Me (No) Questions....	p. 5
Help! It Doesn't Work!	p. 5
On the CD	p. 6
Margin Icons	p. 6
Getting Started	p. 9
So What's an Active Server Page?	p. 11
Boring, Dumb, Static HTML	p. 11
Forms and CGI	p. 12
Server APIs	p. 12
Lofty ASPirations	p. 13
ASP as Easy as 1, 2, 3	p. 13
What Does an ASP Page Look Like?	p. 14
How Is ASP Different from Client-Side Scripting?	p. 17
How Is ASP Different from ActiveX Controls and Java Applets?	p. 19
The World of Internet Development	p. 19
Just How Easy Is ASP?	p. 21
Everything You Need to Get Started	p. 21
About Your Language, Young Man...	p. 22
Where's the Development Environment?	p. 24
Creating and Testing Your ASP Pages	p. 25
Get Your ASP in Gear: Creating Your First ASP Page	p. 26
How Does It Work?	p. 29
Modifying, Retesting, Creating New Pages, and Converting Old Pages	p. 30
Speaking Like a Native	p. 31
Understanding VBScript Basics	p. 33
Getting Started with Programming and Scripting	p. 33
Power -- In Time...	p. 35
Delimiters -- Keeping Your Tags and Your Code Apart	p. 36
Keep Your Comments to Yourself	p. 37
Up Your Case!	p. 38
As I Was Saying: Line Continuation	p. 39
Creating and Using Variables	p. 40
Cantankerous Constants	p. 45
How Functions Function or How to Get a Date	p. 46
Rolling Dice and Cutting Cards -- Using Functions in Formulas with Rnd and Int	p. 48
Common Commands and Functions	p. 51
Doing Math	p. 52
String Manipulation	p. 53
Dates and Times	p. 56
Real VBScript Programming	p. 59
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: Using If..Then	p. 59
Get Off My Case!	p. 66
When Should You Use Select Case Instead of If..Then..Elself?	p. 68
Loop the Loop	p. 70
Arrays	p. 76
Creating Your Own Subroutines and Functions	p. 80
JScript for Geeks	p. 83
Who Should Read This Chapter?	p. 83
What Is JScript?	p. 84
JScript and ASP	p. 84
Here's What You Can't Do	p. 87
One Thing You Can (Finally!) Do: Strings	p. 90
Common Comments	p. 90
Be Gentle. He's Case Sensitive	p. 91
The Terminator (Of Lines)	p. 91
Variable Vagrants and Smooth Operators	p. 91
Conditionals and Loops	p. 96
Arrays	p. 99
Creating Functions	p. 100
The eval Function	p. 101
Getting to Know Your Objects	p. 105
Objects, Objects Everywhere!	p. 107
Okay, So What's an Object?	p. 107
Getting the Patter Down	p. 108
Using Objects	p. 109
Using Scripting Objects	p. 109
VBScript Objects	p. 110
JavaScript Objects	p. 114
Scripting Objects Available to Both VBScript and JScript	p. 123
Using Server Objects	p. 139
An Application, or Just a Bunch of Pages?	p. 139
Using ASP Server Objects	p. 140
The Global.asa File	p. 154
Server-Side Includes	p. 156
Creating ASP Applications	p. 159
Creating a Home For New Web Applications	p. 160
A Guest Book: Creating and Responding to Forms	p. 162
Creating a Radio: Music to Surf By	p. 168
A Personalized Welcome Page with Cookies	p. 173
Customizing a Page Based on the Date	p. 181
Web Site Roulette with Redirect	p. 183
The Power of ASP	p. 184
Using the Included Server Components	p. 185
A Rose by Any Other Name ... Is Confusing!	p. 186
So What Is a Server Component?	p. 186
The Components Included with Your Server	p. 187
Browser Performance Anxiety	p. 188
Just What the World Needs: More Advertising	p. 195
That Fresh Site Feeling with the Content Rotator	p. 198
Linking Your Content	p. 199
The Tools of the Trade	p. 201
Counting Page Hits	p. 202
Counting Other Things	p. 202
Remembering Who You Are with MyInfo	p. 203
Sending E-Mail	p. 204
A Whole World of Server Components	p. 205
Accessing the Database	p. 207
Accessing a Database from ASP	p. 209
Creating a New Database and Table	p. 210
For the Do-It-Yourselfer	p. 211
YAMA: Yet Another Mysterious Acronym -- Creating an ODBC DSN	p. 211
SMMA: Still More Mysterious Acronyms -- Using the DAC to Get to Your ADO	p. 215
Including ADO Constants	p. 216
Connecting to a Database	p. 216
From the Database to the Web Page	p. 217
Getting Exactly the Information You Want	p. 220
Updating the Database	p. 223
Diving Deeper with the Connection and Recordset Objects	p. 223
Updating the Database	p. 234
Catching Database Errors	p. 237
Really Cool ASP Applications	p. 241
The Cafe: Creating a Real-Time Chat Room	p. 243
The Blueprint for the Cafe	p. 244
Building the Cafe, Brick-by-Brick	p. 247
Playing in the Cafe	p. 256
Making It Better	p. 257
Classy Classifieds	p. 259
Planning to Create Classy Classifieds	p. 259
Kicking Off the Site Development	p. 263
The Home Page: Default.asp	p. 264
The Header Include File: Header.inc	p. 265
Adding an Ad: PlaceAd.asp	p. 268
The Category Listing: Category.asp	p. 272
Displaying the Details: Detail.asp	p. 274
Confirming the User: Confirm.asp	p. 276
Editing an Ad: EditAd.asp	p. 278
Deleting an Ad: DelAd.asp	p. 282
Searching for Ads: Search.asp	p. 284
Displaying the Results of a Search: Results.asp	p. 286
Making it Better	p. 289
The Part of Tens	p. 291
The Ten Best Places to Look When You Have a Question	p. 293
RTFM: Read the Flippin' Manual	p. 293
Books	p. 294
Magazines and Newsletters	p. 294
Newsgroups	p. 294
List Servers	p. 295
Online Forums and Web Sites	p. 296
Microsoft Web Technical Support	p. 296
Microsoft Telephone Support	p. 296
ASP Nerds	p. 297
User Groups	p. 297
The Ten Coolest Web Sites for ASP Developers	p. 299
The EdgeQuest Active Web Site	p. 299
ActiveServerPages.com	p. 300
15 Seconds	p. 300
The Official Microsoft SiteBuilder Network	p. 300
The ASP Toolbox	p. 300
Windows NT ActiveX Server Bulletin Board	p. 300
The ASP Hole	p. 301
The ASP Resource Index	p. 301
ASP 101	p. 301
A Lot More Links	p. 301
Ten Interesting Things That Server Components Can Do for You	p. 303
Make It Easy to Send and Receive E-Mail from ASP	p. 303
Security	p. 305
Managing Files	p. 306
Execute Applications from ASP	p. 306
Make Money with Internet Commerce	p. 307
Access Information on Your UNIX, AS/400, or Mainframe Computer	p. 308
Charting and Reporting	p. 308
Accept Database Queries in English	p. 310
Browsing from the Server	p. 310
Other Interesting Stuff	p. 311
Appendixes	p. 313
Introducing Microsoft Visual InterDev	p. 315
Features of Visual InterDev and Why It Works So Well with ASP	p. 315
How Visual InterDev Is Different from Microsoft FrontPage	p. 316
Come on Baby, Do the Local Mode-tion (Or the Master Mode)	p. 318
The Solution	p. 318
Before You Start	p. 319
Creating the Phone List Project and Solution	p. 319
Introducing the Visual InterDev User Interface	p. 323
The Page Window	p. 325
Using the Visual InterDev User Interface to Create a Phone List	p. 325
Creating a Database to Store Your Phone List	p. 328
Creating a DSN for Your Database	p. 329
Creating A Visual InterDev Connection Object	p. 330
Connecting Your Database to Your Web Page	p. 334
Running Your Active PhoneList with Visual InterDev	p. 337
A Crash Course in Database Basics	p. 339
What's a DBMS? What's a Database?	p. 339
Tables, Rows, and Columns	p. 341
Primary Keys and Surrogate Keys	p. 341
Relationships between Tables	p. 342
Speaking Database-ese: SQL	p. 343
Creating Databases and Tables in Microsoft Access	p. 345
Creating the Database	p. 345
Creating a New Table	p. 347
Entering Data into the New Table	p. 348
Troubleshooting Your ASP Projects	p. 349
Getting Set Up	p. 349
But the Server Still Won't Do ASP!	p. 350
ASP Executes But I Still Get Errors	p. 351
If You're Still Having Problems	p. 352
About the CD	p. 353
Index	p. 359
IDG Books Worldwide End-User License Agreement	p. 381
Installation Instructions	p. 383
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