Professional active server pages 2.0

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Publication Information:

Birmingham, Eng. : Wrox Press, 1998

ISBN:

9781861001269

Subject Term:

Active server pages

Web sites -- Design

Intranets (Computer networks) -- Case studies

Web servers -- Computer programs

Added Author:

Fedorov, Alex

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This title covers ASP 2.0, looking at the Microsoft technology which allows the reader to build secure commercial applications for use over the Internet. A knowledge of Javascript or VBScript is assumed.

Author Notes

Russian computer expert Alex Fedorov is an executive editor for ComputerPress magazine.

He has written books and more than 150 articles on such topics as Delphi programming, Internet programming, ASP, and COM/OLE.

(Bowker Author Biography)

An Introduction to Active Server Pages	p. 1
Chapter 1 Getting Started With ASP	p. 7
What is ASP? And Why is it Better than HTML?	p. 8
Shortcomings of HTML	p. 8
ASP and HTML	p. 11
Can ASP Pages be Viewed on Netscape or Internet Explorer?	p. 12
The Web--The Next Generation	p. 12
Static Publishing	p. 13
CGI	p. 13
Active Web Sites	p. 13
Why Use ASP?	p. 15
What do I Need to Run ASP?	p. 16
Which Web Server do I Choose?	p. 16
Installing Personal Web Server 4.0	p. 18
Finding your Way Around Personal Web Server	p. 20
Getting ASP Up and Running	p. 26
Checking it's all Working Fine	p. 26
Common Errors and Pitfalls with ASP	p. 29
Creating and Editing ASP Scripts	p. 31
Viewing ASPs	p. 34
So, What is ASP, Again?	p. 35
Active Server Objects	p. 36
Active Server Components	p. 36
Active Server Pages Scripting Objects	p. 37
Summary	p. 37
Chapter 2 Client-Side Scripting and Server-Side Scripting	p. 39
Client/Server Architecture: What's the Fuss?	p. 40
In the Bad Old Days	p. 41
Separating the Tasks	p. 41
Web Client/Server Architectures	p. 43
Scripting Languages	p. 43
Client-Side or Server-Side Scripts?	p. 44
Client-Side Scripts	p. 44
Server-Side Scripts	p. 53
How Does ASP Work?	p. 56
Summary	p. 61
Chapter 3 Basic ASP Techniques	p. 63
Getting Information From the User	p. 63
Using Forms to Obtain Information from the User	p. 64
Holding Information Obtained From the User	p. 74
Output to the User	p. 76
Exercises Utilizing these Basic ASP Techniques	p. 85
Summary	p. 95
Chapter 4 Variables	p. 97
What is a Variable?	p. 98
Naming Variables	p. 98
Data Types in VBScript, or One Type For All	p. 99
Determining Subtypes with TypeName()	p. 102
Arithmetic and Comparison Operators	p. 104
Assignment Operator	p. 105
Comparison Operators	p. 105
Logical Operators	p. 106
Arithmetic Calculations	p. 106
Concatenating Variants	p. 107
Declaring Variants	p. 107
Using Option Explicit	p. 108
Conversions	p. 111
Naming Conventions	p. 114
Constants	p. 115
VBScript Constants	p. 115
String Manipulation	p. 115
Returning the Length of a String	p. 116
Pruning the Beginning or End of a String	p. 116
Removing the Middle of a String	p. 117
Finding a Particular Word	p. 117
Giving it a Quick Trim	p. 118
Variable Scope	p. 122
Local Variables	p. 122
Global Variables	p. 124
Arrays	p. 127
Declaring Arrays	p. 128
Multi-Dimensional Arrays	p. 131
Summary	p. 132
Chapter 5 ASP Control Constructs	p. 135
An Example in Plain English	p. 135
There are Two Kinds of ASP Statements	p. 136
Definitions	p. 137
Types of Control Statements	p. 137
Branching Structures	p. 138
Looping Controls	p. 138
Jumping Controls	p. 138
Examples of Control Structures	p. 139
Branching Statements	p. 140
If...Then Control Structure	p. 140
Select Case	p. 146
Looping Controls	p. 150
Jumping Structures and the Art of Reusing Code	p. 161
Procedures	p. 162
Functions	p. 167
Summary of Reusing Code	p. 172
Summary	p. 173
Chapter 6 Objects, Properties, Methods and Events	p. 175
What is an Object?	p. 176
Our Telephone in Detail	p. 176
Object Terms	p. 177
Programming with Objects	p. 183
The Telephone Object	p. 184
Altering the Properties of an Object	p. 185
Calling Methods of an Object	p. 189
What is the Active Server Pages Object Model?	p. 193
Object Model Structure	p. 194
Using the Object Model as a Road Map	p. 198
Summary	p. 199
Chapter 7 The Request Object	p. 201
The Request Object	p. 201
Request Object Collections	p. 202
The QueryString Collection	p. 202
The Form Collection	p. 210
The Server Variables Collection	p. 215
The Cookies Collection	p. 225
The ClientCertificate Collection	p. 227
Properties and Methods of the Request Object	p. 230
The TotalBytes Property	p. 230
The BinaryRead Method	p. 230
Summary	p. 230
Chapter 8 The Response Object	p. 233
The Response Object	p. 233
Sending Information back to the Client	p. 234
Controlling How Information is Returned	p. 237
Controlling What the Browser Does	p. 242
Other Information to Send	p. 248
Using the Request and Response Object	p. 248
Summary	p. 257
Chapter 9 Applications, Sessions and Cookies	p. 259
A Web Application	p. 260
The Application Object	p. 260
Application Variables	p. 261
Application Object Collections	p. 263
Application Object Methods	p. 264
Global.asa	p. 267
Understanding the Structure of global.asa	p. 267
What is a Session?	p. 269
The Session Object	p. 271
Session Object Collections	p. 271
Session Object Properties	p. 272
Session Object Methods	p. 274
Sessions and global.asa	p. 278
Using Cookies	p. 284
Creating Cookies	p. 284
Using Keys	p. 285
Making your Cookie Persist	p. 285
Deleting a Cookie	p. 286
Summary	p. 292
Chapter 10 Active Server Pages Components	p. 295
The Server Object	p. 296
Creating an Instance of a Component Object	p. 296
The Ad Rotator Component	p. 298
The Content Linker Component	p. 302
Structure of the Content Linker	p. 303
ASP Pages that Use Content Linker to Hyperlink to the Next Page	p. 306
ASP Pages that Use the Content Linker to Display Descriptions	p. 311
Using the Content Linker and Control Structures to Display Only Appropriate Links	p. 315
Using the Content Linker with Home and End Hyperlinks	p. 320
ASP Content Linker to Generate a Table of Contents	p. 322
The Browser Capabilities Component	p. 326
Other Components	p. 330
Summary	p. 330
Chapter 11 The Scripting Objects	p. 333
What are Scripting Objects?	p. 333
The Dictionary Object	p. 334
The FileSystemObject Object	p. 342
The FileSystemObject Object and its Object Model	p. 342
Server-Side Includes	p. 351
The Text Stream Object	p. 355
Summary	p. 365
Chapter 12 Debugging ASP	p. 367
Arrgh! I Goofed Again!	p. 368
Where am I?	p. 368
What Am I Doing Here?	p. 369
The Lack of Good ASP Debuggers	p. 371
Debugging ASP Script	p. 371
Use Option Explicit	p. 372
Use Response. Write	p. 372
Use Subprocedures	p. 373
Use Include Files	p. 374
Conditional Tracing	p. 374
The Err Object	p. 381
The Script Debugger	p. 384
Enabling Debugging in IIS and PWS for NT Workstation	p. 384
The Script Debugger	p. 386
Starting the Debugger	p. 387
Using the Script Debugger	p. 388
Client-Side versus Server-Side Debugging	p. 393
Summary	p. 394
Chapter 13 Databases with ASP	p. 397
What is a Data Store?	p. 398
What is a Connection?	p. 398
What is a Data Source Name?	p. 399
Creating a DSN	p. 399
Using a Data Store	p. 404
The Technical Bit	p. 406
What is ODBC?	p. 406
What is OLE-DB?	p. 407
ActiveX Data Objects	p. 408
The Connection String	p. 409
OLE-DB versus ODBC	p. 410
The Connection Object	p. 411
Creating a Connection to a Database	p. 411
The Properties Collection	p. 413
The Connection Errors Collection	p. 416
Summary	p. 423
Chapter 14 Expanding Data Access	p. 425
The ADO Object Model	p. 425
What is a Recordset?	p. 426
Connect String Differences	p. 427
The Recordest Object	p. 427
What are the Recordset Types?	p. 431
What is Locking?	p. 432
ADO Constants	p. 433
The Recordset Object in Detail	p. 434
EOF and BOF	p. 437
Bookmarks	p. 437
Moving Through Records	p. 438
Finding Records	p. 441
Filtering Records	p. 445
The Fields Collection	p. 448
Arrays of Rows	p. 453
The Command Object	p. 456
The Connection Object (Reprise)	p. 461
Using Queries or Stored Procedures	p. 462
Modifying Data	p. 471
Combined Example	p. 476
Summary	p. 482
Chapter 15 Writing an Application	p. 485
WROX Classifieds	p. 485
Database Setup	p. 487
Setting up the DSN	p. 495
The Home Page	p. 495
User Registration and Login	p. 498
The Login Screen	p. 508
Adding Items for Sale	p. 514
Browsing Items for Sale	p. 528
Bidding for an Item	p. 532
Accepting a Bid	p. 547
Notifiying the Bidder	p. 555
Next Steps	p. 559
Summary	p. 560
Appendix A The VBScript Language	p. 563
Array Handling	p. 563
Assignments	p. 564
Constants	p. 564
Error constant	p. 564
System Color constants	p. 564
Comparison constants	p. 565
Date and Time constants	p. 565
Date Format constants	p. 565
File Input/Output constants	p. 566
String constants	p. 566
Tristate constants	p. 566
VarType constants	p. 566
Control Flow	p. 567
Functions	p. 568
Conversion Functions	p. 569
Date/Time Functions	p. 569
Math Functions	p. 570
Object Management Functions	p. 571
Script Engine Identification	p. 571
String Functions	p. 571
Variable Testing Functions	p. 572
Variable Declarations	p. 573
Error Handling	p. 573
Input/Output	p. 573
MsgBox	p. 573
InputBox	p. 575
Procedures	p. 576
Other Keywords	p. 576
Visual Basic Run-time Error Codes	p. 576
Appendix B Active Server Pages Object Model	p. 581
Request Object	p. 581
Response Object	p. 582
Application Object	p. 583
Session Object	p. 584
Server Object	p. 584
The Ad Rotator Component	p. 585
The Content Linking Component	p. 585
Appendix C Scripting Object Methods and Properties	p. 587
The Dictionary Object	p. 587
The FileSystemObject Object	p. 588
The TextStream Object	p. 588
The FileSystemObject object hierarchy	p. 589
Drive Object	p. 589
Folder Object	p. 590
File Object	p. 591
Appendix D HTTP 1.1 Error Codes	p. 593
Appendix E Useful References and URLs	p. 599
Other Useful URLs	p. 600
Appendix F Glossary of Terms and Acronyms	p. 603
Appendix G Support and Errata	p. 617
Wrox Developer's Membership	p. 618
Finding an Errata on the Web Site	p. 619
Adding an Errata to the Sheet Yourself	p. 621
E-mail Support	p. 621
Customer Support	p. 622
Editorial	p. 622
The Authors	p. 622
What We Can't Answer	p. 622
How to Tell Us Exactly What You Think	p. 622
Index	p. 625

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