Tutorial - ASP basic tutorial

ASP

Active Server Pages (ASP) is a server side scripting technology, which can be used to easily build dynamic web pages. Our Windows 2003 servers run Internet Information Server (IIS) 6, offering full support for ASP.

ASP Components

All ASP components included as standard with IIS 6 are available. In addition, the following components are also available:

CDOSYS
Jmail
AspEmail

If you would like additional commercially available components registered on your server we can normally meet this requirement provided you reimburse or contribute to any licensing costs incurred and we feel that the component will benefit other users, please contact us for more information.
Components written by yourself cannot be installed on the server.

Creating an ASP script

First create an HTML web page in a text editor and type:

						<html>
<head>
 <title>A ASP Page</title>
</head>
<body>

Now for the ASP. ASP needs to be placed in between the special tags, <% ...... %>. Next we will start the ASP tag and create a variable to for the text 'Hello World'.

						<%

						'Dimension variables

						Dim strMessage

						'Put the string value Hello World into the variable

						strMessage = "Hello Word"

Now we can display the contents of the variable in the HTML using the ASP Response.Write method.

						'Output the content of the variable strMessage to the page

						Response.Write(strMessage)

						%>

Now we close the body tag and the HTML tag.

						</body>
</html>
					

Now save the file, 'helloworld.asp' save the file to a directory on your windows hosting account.

To display the page open your web browser and type 'http://mydomain/helloworld.asp', replacing mydomain with the domain you have hosted.

Technical Support On ASP Scripts

Please note that we cannot provide technical support on third party ASP scripts, problems with a third party ASP script should be referred to the script vendor.