Where to get ASP,
Before you can write asp. You need a ASP-server to test your code.
If you work with a Windows 95/98/Me-system you can download and install PWS (Personal Web Server)
For Windows NT4 and Windows 2000, you can install IIS(Internet Information Server)
You can install this service with the installation of NT/2000 or you can add it later by:
Control Panel/Network/Services/Internet Information Service.
For windows NT you might need to upgrade to with Option Pack 4 after the installation of IIS.For Solaris, Linux, AIX and HP-Ux-servers take a look at chilisoft.com.
Warning: there are 2 versions of ASP, ASP2 - ASP3.
ASP2 is supported from IIS3 (winNT)
ASP3 is supported from IIS5 (windows2000)
Language
ASP is language independent. You can use VB-Script, JavaScript and Perl.
We use VB Script, everything you see on this site is probably VB Script.Anyway at the top of each ASP-page is the language used written.
<% @ language="vbscript" %>
You have to remember that ASP is server based-script. All action are done on the server. The result, plain HTML is send to the user(surfer). This means that you need a heavier server, but also that your code is save. No one can see your ASP-code, you can add passwords to access databases and no one can intercept them, cause it never leaves the server.
And one last thing,
All ASP-code is written between <% and %>
To write a ASP-variable to HTML :<%= %>
To add comment add ' or REM in front of the line.If you want to write special characters to HTML, Try to place them twice(2).
Example quotes, to get 1 " in HTML you'll have to place it twice("") in ASP.
