2884Active Server Pages tutorial for beginnershttp://www.asptutorial.infoOur server may allow us to use ASP only in the "cgi-bin" directory or in all the site. Depending on this fact we may need to change the path to the files we are manipulating. Here, we will consider a server which allows using ASP in the entire site.ASP > Tips and Tutorials > Introduction to ASPOct 10, 2006
Why bother with ASP at all, when HTML can serve your needs? If you want to display information, all you have to do is fire up your favorite text editor, type in a few HTML tags, and save it as an HTML file.
Bingo, you?re done!
Cookies can handle user information such as text, email address?s, broweser information etc.. As in the previous tutorial we?ll create a standard form with name and email.
ASP is a new scripting technology that comes with Microsoft
IIS web server and enables web programmers to create
powerful web applications and pages. These dynamic pages
are the result of running a code on the server. Server
receives user?s input from browser, runs the script and
creates a web page on the fly and sends it back to browser.
We can use different languages such as vbscript and jscript
with asp scripting method. ASP is now available on Unix
platforms by a third party company ?chili soft?. For Unix
people asp is very similar to PHP scripting.
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