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Cookies are not transferrable across domains; the only domain that can access the cookie is the domain that created it. This article describes solutions to bypass this limitation using Active Server Pages.

Adding a record from a database table is a simple task. Fill out the form below and click submit. The sql statement will be generated for you.

The author writes "Many places on the web feature the date that the current document was last modified on. Rather than changing the date manually, using a FrontPage WebBot, or targeting the document by writing it directly into the script, let the server ask the document for the info and it will tell you. This scriptwriter will output code that can be placed on any .asp document on your server and will display the date and time it was last modified in a number of varieties."

This article discusses two different ways to dynamically generate data-entry forms: Use the ADO OpenSchema Method, and Query Your SQL Server System Tables. Describes advantages and disadvantages of each method.

This is an article on using Recordset. It uses GetRows method to speedup database access. One of the fastest ways of displaying database records with ASP. Sample Database and Code available for download.

This article provides an easy way to list nested forums. It does have some drawbacks, though. For starters, there is an upper-bound on the number of nested replies a message can have. In this example, the number is 12, although this is configurable. Furthermore, this approach is not the most efficient approach, and could be streamlined using stored procedures and fewer ADO objects within the code.

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.