ASP is not really a language in itself, it's an acronym for Active Server Pages, the actual language used to program ASP with is a script version of Visual Basic. The biggest drawback of ASP is that it's a proprietary system that is natively used only on Microsofts Internet Information Server (IIS). This limits it's availability to Win32 based servers. There are a couple of projects in the works that allows ASP to run in other environments and webservers; InstantASP from Halcyon (commercial), Chili!Soft ASP from Chili!Soft (commercial) and OpenASP from ActiveScripting.org (free). ASP is said to be a slower and more cumbersome language than PHP, less stable as well. Some of the pros of ASP is that since it uses VBScript it's relatively easy to pick up the language if you're already know how to program in Visual Basic. ASP support is also enabled by default in the IIS server making it easy to get up and running.
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How do i get setup with a DSN? -
Email support@1stdesign.net with the MySQL database, database user name and password you want to use with the DSN.
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How do I connect to my MySQL database with ASP? -
Here is some sample code for connecting to a database via ASP:
Set Conn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Conn.Open ConnString
Conn.Execute .....
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....
Conn.Close
Set Conn = Nothing
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What suffix do I need on the end of my ASP files? -
In order to run ASP(Active Server Pages) you will need to put an .asp or .asa on the end of every ASP file so the server knows to handle the file correctly.
Example: file.asp
or file.asa
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What suffix do I need on the end of my PHP files? -
You can put .php or .php4 on the end of every PHP file so the server knows to parse the file correctly.
Example: file.php
or file.php4
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What version of PHP does 1st Design have installed? -
We are currently running PHP4 with Zend Optimizer.
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How do I execute a CGI script inside a PHP file? -
To execute a CGI script inside a PHP file put the following inside your PHP script:
