CLASS 2

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CLASS 2
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OVERVIEW

• FOLDER NUMBERS
• FTP INSTRUCTIONS
• CLIENT SIDE/ SERVER SIDE
• WHAT YOU NEED FOR ASP
• WHY CODE IN ASP?
• SOME VBSCRIPT REFERENCES
• THE RESPONSE OBJECT
• THE FORM TAG?

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FTP INSTRUCTIONS

• HTTP//129.115.10.93/CONNECT
• http//129.115.106.93/connect

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WHAT IS ASP?
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ACTIVE SERVER PAGES

• USES
• HTML (PRESENTATION)
• VBSCRIPT
• JAVA
• SQL
• USE HTML, VBSCRIPT, JAVA ALL IN THE SAME PROGRAM

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SERVER SIDE SCRIPTING

• COMMANDS EXECUTED BY THE SERVER
• (FOR MOST THINGS)

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CLIENT SIDE SCRIPTING

• (WE WONT DO)
• WHY?
• DONT HAVE TO SEND DATA ALL THE WAY TO SERVER
  BEFORE CORRECTING/WHATEVER?
• BUT BECOMES BROWSER DEPENDENT
• NETSCAPE, INTERNET EXPLORER

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TECHNOLOGY REQUIRED
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SERVER SIDE

• INTERNET INFORMATION SERVER
• I THINK WE HAVE IIS 4.0
• PERSONAL WEB SERVER
• CAN INSTALL ON YOUR PC

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INSTALLING PWS ON YOUR PC

• HTTP//COVERYOURASP.COM/PWS.ASP
• I HAVENT TESTED THE INSTRUCTIONS

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SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

• PROGRAM AND DEBUG USING PWS
• THEN TRANSMIT TO YOUR FOLDER
• (DONT FORGET TO SPECIFY NEW PATHS)

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CLIENT SIDE

• TO CREATE PROGRAMS
• NOTEPAD
• WORDPAD
• ULTRAEDIT
• FRONT PAGE
• TO RUN PROGRAMS
• BROWSER
• INTERNET EXPLORER
• NETSCAPE

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FRONT PAGE, INTERDEV

• WILL HELP YOU DO PROJECTS EASIER(?)
• WONT LET YOU LEARN ASP
• WHY LEARN ASP?
• http//www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/top10/beg9.s
  html

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WHY ASP?

• A) UNDERSTAND PARADIGM
• B) DEBUG COMPLEX CODE
• C) MAY NOT HAVE TOOL HANDY
• D) TOOL MAY NOT BE ABLE TO DO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO
• ONCE YOU LEARN ASP, OK TO USE TOOLS.

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VBSCRIPT REFERENCE

• HTTP//MSDN.MICROSOFT.COM/SCRIPTING/VBSCRIPT/DOC/V
  BSTOC.HTM

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LEARNING TO LEARN

• OBJECT ORIENTED LANGUAGE
• CONSTANTS
• ERRORS
• EVENTS
• FUNCTIONS
• METHODS
• OBJECTS
• OPERATORS
• PROPERTIES
• STATEMENTS

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RESPONSE OBJECT
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PROPERTIES

• BUFFER
• CACHECONTROL
• CHARSET
• CONTENTYPE
• EXPIRES
• EXPIRESABSOLUTE
• ISCLIENTCONNECTED
• PICS
• STATUS

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COLLECTIONS

• COOKIES

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METHODS

• ADDHEADER
• APPENDTOLOG
• BINARYWRITE
• CLEAR
• END
• FLUSH
• REDIRECT
• WRITE

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EVENTS

• (NONE)

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WRITING AND EXECUTING A PROGRAM

• STEP 1 WRITE CODE USING NOTEPAD OR WORDPAD ETC
• STEP 2 SAVE ON FLOPPY OR HARD DRIVE
• STEP 3 FTP INTO YOUR FOLDER
• STEP 4 FIRE UP BROWSER AND EXECUTE THE PROGRAM

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EXECUTING A PROGRAM ON THE SERVER

• PROGRAM MUST HAVE ONE OF THESE EXTENSIONS
• .HTML
• .HTM
• .ASP

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• IF .HTML OR .HTM, JUST FORMATS AND DISPLAYS ON
  BROWSER
• IF .ASP, EXECUTES INSTRUCTIONS, CREATES HTML PAGE
  WITH RESULTS AND THEN DISPLAYS ON BROWSER.