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Once a day the CoverYourASP site automatically sends out email reminders and deletes members who haven't confirmed their email address for 10 days. This tutorial explains how to remove those who have not confirmed their email addresses for 10 days. Pure ASP, and the whole site source is available for free download.

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.

It is possible to store images in a database using a number of third party tools or a custom built component. Once you have the images stored in your database, however, displaying them requires the use of a simple ASP page. This tutorial explains how to retrieve images from a database table and use them in an HTML page.

Form submissions in ASP are usually written to some sort of database management system. However, if you need your form submission data to be more portable, you may want to write it to an XML file. Especially useful when the data you are gathering will be sent to applications on non-Windows platforms. This tutorial explains how to write a form submission to an XML document using the Microsoft XMLDOM Object.

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.

This is a comprehensive tutorial on how to incorporate SQL server 7.0/2000 databases into your ASP pages. Topics include: Installation steps, Creating SQL Server 7.0/2000 Databases, Creating SQL Server 7.0/2000 Tables, Creating SQL Server 7.0/2000 Logins, Setting SQL Server 7.0/2000 Permissions, Increasing SQL Server 7.0/2000 Performance with Indexes, and Distributed SQL Server 7.0/2000 Transactions & Queries.

This tutorial shows a quick and easy way to generate Excel reports using just ASP. It allows the server to dynamically create Excel reports without taking up any space on the server, and also allows multiple concurrent users to receive these reports simultaneously. The generated reports can be complete with Excel formulas, which allows intensive calculations to be moved to the client side. This method only works with Excel 97 or later.

Explains everything in detail you'll ever need to know about creating Stored Procedures in Access Database and then calling from within ASP. Select, Update, Insert and Delete Stored Procedures are described. Sample code and database available for download.

This two-page article provides a couple ways to build your own banner rotation system for your Web site: Using Microsoft-bundled Ad Rotator component, and Using a custom, database-driven approach.

There are 8 events available in ASP grouped by Global Events, Class Events, and Transactional Events. This is a nice summary tutorial on how to use them in your applications.

This tutorial shows you how to create charts dynamically through ASP. Discusses a couple different methods: The basic technique via array building, and more detailed method using Office Web Components (OWC).

This tutorial explains the complete banner ad system used at the site, "CoverYourASP". Database driven, but using Application variables extensively, it tracks impressions and clickthroughs and is fully automatic. Source code available for download.

One requirement of the CoverYourASP advertising system is that multiple clickthroughs from the same IP address on the same day will be ignored. Another way to stop spiders is by testing the HTTP_USER_AGENT.

In this first article of the ASPHoleTools series, you will be shown the basics for data access. Covers how to create the basic include file for database access, and testing that data access was installed properly on your machine.

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.

Using an asp file and an Access database, this short example code demonstrates how to create a user login script with customizable personalization feature.

This article by James Shaw demonstrates how to dynamically add properties to an object (expando properties) - by implementing a function to create named recordsets.

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.

In this part 3 of "Using ASP for Form Handling", you will be shows how to put the form data gathered into a database. Shows how to develop a working registration system, set up the database and make it accessible via the web.

This article explains how to pass the values in an array from one page to another without using session or application variables.