New Scripts | ASP | Tutorials & Tips

This article presents three modular routines to access and fetch data easier with ASP. Topics include: Fetching a Recordset, An alternative to the GetConnectedRecordSet function that opens a connection, fetches a recordset, and immediately closes the connection, and Utilities for Creating Valid SQL Statements.

This article describes three simple techniques which combine persistent cookie management and creative redirects to give users a consistent experience as they move through sites in different subdomains and domains.

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

The author writes "ASP has the ability to write .html or any other text based documents directly to a web server (You need to write the text output to a directory that has write authority). This enables the instantaneous publication of user input without the need for uploading files from a PC." This example code shows how to write text based documents to a server using ASP.

The author writes "For small data bits on a server where the chance for significant simultaneous traffic is not likely excel can perform many of the basic tasks that can be accomplished in Access or SQL Server, but on a much smaller scale." This exmaple code demonstrates how to display data from Excel using sample data of Hank Greenberg's career statistics. Example code available for download.

This sample code demonstrates how to create effective graphs using simple html and the output from an access db but without the need for third party components. The example shows the stock performance for Yahoo.

This article discusses the usage of persistence with the Application object in detail. Explains when to use Persistence, advantanges and disadvantages of using Persistence, and what types of data exchanges are targets for optimization and the benefits and disadvantages of using persistence with the Application object. Example code available for download.

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.

Based on an HTML template file, this ASP sample code formats pages of a web site dynamically. It allows you to change the appearance, layout, fonts, colours and pagewidth throughout the whole site just by replacing one template file. It also allows you to display the same pages using different templates: printer friendly versions, small screens, handheld versions, webTV versions, search engine pages, etc.

Article on accessing drives, folders and files with ASP; iterating though drives, folders and files collections, reading content of a file and more. Also provides detailed listing of all properties and methods of FileSystemObject, Drive, Folder, File and TextStream objects.

A discussion of how to use null values effectively in your database tables. Includes a discussion of the logic behind nulls and some practical programming techniques.

This is a complete tutorial on uploading files to the server hard disk using ASP ( VBScript ).

This is a sample code that combines a Database Paging and a Database Search script into one. It shows you how to perform a wilcard search on a database table and then page through the results.

This article examines how to strip HTML tags using regular expressions. Regular expressions are nifty little buggers that can be used to perform advanced string pattern matching and replacing.

This article provides sample source code for a user query parser which allows users to submit full-text search queries from ASP to SQL Server 2000. Full source code available for download.

This is a short exmaple that demonstrates the text manipulation functions in .asp. It takes a string of ten numbers 8005551212 (the 800 number for 800 info) and splits it into the common ###-###-#### format.

This example shows how to perform a variety of statistics on your data using simple SQL such as Sum, Average, Max, Min, and Count. It uses stock trading performance of EPOS as an example.

This article illustrates a technique to provide dynamic content generated from an ASP page onto a static HTML page. Specifically it explains how to display a page counter on a number of static HTML pages.

Session variables can store user-specific information for you. This tutorial explain how to configure your server and how they work (and when they don't).

This article explains how to design and program a multifunctional shopping cart application using SQL Server, ASP, and ODBC. Source code available for download.