Asp?

[Guest]

ASP stands for Active Server Pages.
ASP is a server side scripting.
ASP has very important Objects which are used to create the client side and server side scripting.
These Objects are:
1.Response Object
2.Request Object
3.Session Object
4.Write Object

Server side scripting is done where the coding is done in delimiters i.e
<%........%>
for example
<% document.write("Hello")%>
even you can include the HTML format here and in the HTML tags.

When a request is given from the client side that request is processed by server and the server response accordingly.

When the user makes a query that query is written in the Request object.

Accordingly the response is made through the server side with Response Object.

Session Object helps to know the time period of the user.This is used to know when the user has logged on or logged off.When the users session is expired or started is done through the session object.

In addition to this the output document can be printed on the screen by writing WRITE Object.

ASP is helpful in making the connection with any DATABASE like ACCESS or SQL or any other database making it more flexible.
ASP needs a server side also to interact with a client.

Signing off with that!

[naruto456]

you say the basic things. can you write some informative for us like why we use ASP.net not PHP.
wht is the diff b\w asp.net and php?


thanks

[Jenniferlinn]

What is ASP?

* ASP stands for Active Server Pages
* ASP is a program that runs inside IIS
* IIS stands for Internet Information Services
* IIS comes as a free component with Windows 2000
* IIS is also a part of the Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack
* The Option Pack can be downloaded from Microsoft
* PWS is a smaller - but fully functional - version of IIS
* PWS can be found on your Windows 95/98 CD

ASP Compatibility

* ASP is a Microsoft Technology
* To run IIS you must have Windows NT 4.0 or later
* To run PWS you must have Windows 95 or later
* ChiliASP is a technology that runs ASP without Windows OS
* InstantASP is another technology that runs ASP without Windows

What is an ASP File?

* An ASP file is just the same as an HTML file
* An ASP file can contain text, HTML, XML, and scripts
* Scripts in an ASP file are executed on the server
* An ASP file has the file extension ".asp"

How Does ASP Differ from HTML?

* When a browser requests an HTML file, the server returns the file
* When a browser requests an ASP file, IIS p***es the request to the ASP engine. The ASP engine reads the ASP file, line by line, and executes the scripts in the file. Finally, the ASP file is returned to the browser as plain HTML

What can ASP do for you?

* Dynamically edit, change or add any content of a Web page
* Respond to user queries or data submitted from HTML forms
* Access any data or databases and return the results to a browser
* Customize a Web page to make it more useful for individual users
* The advantages of using ASP instead of CGI and Perl, are those of simplicity and speed
* Provide security since your ASP code can not be viewed from the browser
* Clever ASP programming can minimize the network traffic


Active Server Pages or ASP, as it is more commonly known, is a technology that enables you to make dynamic and interactive web pages.

ASP uses server-side scripting to dynamically produce web pages that are not affected by the type of browser the web site visitor is using.

The default scripting language used for writing ASP is VBScript, although you can use other scripting languages like JScript (Microsoft's version of JavaScript).

ASP pages have the extension .asp instead of .htm, when a page with the extension .asp is requested by a browser the web server knows to interpret any ASP contained within the web page before sending the HTML produced to the browser. This way all the ASP is run on the web server and no ASP will ever be p***ed to the web browser.

Any web pages containing ASP cannot be run by just simply opening the page in a web browser. The page must be requested through a web server that supports ASP, this is why ASP stands for Active Server Pages, no server, no active pages.

[Jenniferlinn]

Hope this post help everybody on the board

[Guest]

ASP is a server side script and it can perform many backend processing jobs for a web site, same way it can't do many things particularly the client end operations as it has no control over the client end events or user controls. So there are many advantages and disadvantages of using ASP to manage web pages. We may not like to say disadvantages of ASP and it is better to say the limitation of any server side scripting language, as these limitations are faced by other scripting languages like PHP, JSP, Perl etc. We will try to understand where ASP can be used and where it should not be used.

Using server side scripting language like ASP we can manage the content of any page and such dynamic code ( or content ) for the web browsers can be generated based on various conditions we set in our ASP program. To a visitor the back end script or processing is of no use. They are more interested in design, content, speed etc. So there is no point in asking ASP engine to work when there is simple html content to be displayed at browser end. This will also improve the loading speed of the page. The user browser does not understand scripts we run at server. Brower understands JavaScript (if enabled), html, CSS etc. So what ever output we want to be send to the browser has to be written using these languages. So the task we want to be performed at client end can't be written at server end using ASP.

ASP engine finishes its job of processing the code and then send the codes to users browser. From this point on words till again the page request comes back to server, there is no control of ASP on the page. So we should not expect ASP to perform some tasks which are likely to happen at the client browser end.

[Guest]

A Microsoft server-side Web technology. ASP.NET takes an object-oriented programming approach to Web page execution. Every element in an ASP.NET page is treated as an object and run on the server. An ASP.NET page gets compiled into an intermediate language by a .NET Common Language Runtime-compliant compiler.

[ArielleJoseph22]

Active Server Pages (ASP), also known as Cl***ic ASP or ASP Cl***ic, was Microsoft's first server-side script engine for dynamically generated web pages. Initially released as an add-on to Internet Information Services via the Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack it was subsequently included as a free component of Windows Server ASP.NET, first released in January 2002, has superseded ASP.