can you describe a situaton where i would use an active server page?

Answer 1

You would use an ASP page when you wanted to show dynamic content. (Content which changes frequently as opposed to static content which never changes. (HTML))

If you have information in a database (Product catalog for example) you can use ASP to display the information and let the website visitor select from varoius ways to sort and display the info on the page. (Show a specific type of product, or show products within a price range)

This user input is detected by the server which creates a customized page display for the user. Rather than displaying the entire catalog the server creates a page showing only the results of the users query.

You can use other means to create dynamic content such as PHP Perl .

ASP has an advantage in that it may be programmed in a variation of BASIC which for some people give them a little comfort if they are familiar with that language.

Answer 2

The situation I am most familiar with is this:

You have a website with a form for collecting data of some sort and need to store that data in a database. Users enter information into the form and click a Submit button. The ASP files, which YOU write, contain the script for retrieving the data and puitting it into the database.

Conversely, you can also use ASP files to retrieve data from a database in order to display it on a web page.

Answer 3

ASP is a glue that sticks several things togeather with usefull functions. i.e allows html, dao, vb, c to work together giving dynamic web content. its use can be seen in many different web sites anytime you see a '&' in the url you are looking at a page that is dynamic and possibly using asp.

Answer 4

effective...by using ADO. you rather attempt this Set Connection = Server.CreatObject("ADO.Connection") Connection.Open(ConnectionString) 'it really is for inspite of your sq. server is by using an ODBC motive force. Oracle, MS-sq., MySQL, Postgre, and get get proper of entry to to are all supported. Set RecordSet = Connenction.Execute("sq. Command") 'bypass from there....

Answer 5

For dynamic web-pages.

Please see more details at

http://www.w3schools.com/asp/

This site is a good for various web-development technologies.

Answer 6

http://www.asp.net Microsoft official ASP.net site

Answer 7

http://www.asp101.com/

You should have a look at this site....


btw... are you doing a quiz or something?