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A very important coding method to understand when developing ASP pages is the page that submits to itself. This technique is very powerful and can drastically reduce the number of files you have to maintain and the number of places in which you need to make changes when maintaining code. The concept is simple. Using forms, set the action value to the URL of the page in which the form resides. Then use ASP code to determine what the current state of the page, and present the proper output to the user.

Handling forms and processing the data you get from them is one of the fundamentals that need to be mastered if you are to develop a dynamic site. This is a very simple introductory tutorial on form handling.

This article discusses how to deal with various checkboxes in form via ASP. Covers: The Default No-Frills Checkbox, Checkbox With An Associated Value, Multiple Checkboxs With The Same Name, and Checkbox Which Maintains It's State.

This script shows how to send an email via the CDONTS objects available to ASP 3.0. It will take a selection of form input, create the required e-mail objects, send the e-mail to the specified recipient and then redirect the user to a confirmation page, thanking them for their input.

An article on inserting Form content into database. We'll also create an ASP page to show all the records and to delete specific records if wanted.

This page explains how to collect info from forms and validate them with VBScript server side. All source code is available.

Many of us have faced situations when we fill invalid information in one field of a form, and when we submit, the forms apears again with that field in red color. This tutorial shows you how simple it is to add such facilities to your forms.

A quick tutorial to show you the basics of form submission and handling.

The great advantage of ASP is possibility to respond to user queries or data submitted from HTML forms. You can process information gathered by an HTML form and use ASP code to make decisions based off this information to create dynamic web pages. This tutorial demonstrates how to create an HTML form and process the data.

One way to generate dynamic PDF files is to create PDF template forms and then to fill them on the fly. This article show you how to do so very easily by using the FDF toolkit.

A handy function for validating strings and replacing unwanted contents, by searching for matches with regular expression patterns. There are two functions - one that replaces pattern matches, and one that can call the first function multiple times, each time with a different pattern.

This is an extensive article that describes form validation technique to help the user submit correct information.

Full VBS code, which lets you accept x-www-form-urlencoded forms in ASP without limit of size using BinaryRead (Request.Form has 100kB limit), recomended solution from MS KB (Q273482). Source of URLDecode function included.

Generic framework showing in detail how to implement forms with ASP, with validation and field persistence.

This tutorial shows you how to automatically censor specific words on posts for message boards or guestbooks when posted. It provides a function called CensorStr to do the job.

The checkbox object is coded along the same lines as radio buttons, however each checkbox must get its own unique name since the state of "checked" or "not checked" will be passed to ASP for each box. Remember that you can set more than one option to be checked. Complete source code provided for the example.

This tutorial will show you how to give your forms a little bit more power. By making your forms self-referencing, you can open up whole new areas of functionality with your web applications.

In this final part of ASP Form Handling series, the author discusses such topics as handling radio buttons and check boxes, emailing attachments with CDONTS, and some ways of using the data stored in the registration database covered in Part 3.

Select boxes must often communicate with one another (i.e., a Child select object's option values depend on the value selected in the Parent object). This tutorial details how to create a hierarchy of select objects using ASP, SQL, ADO, and JavaScript.

This article shows how to build a forms validation library using JavaScript and ASP. Its FormLib simplifies form creation and eliminates common forms-maintenance tasks.