ASP Tutorial - Table of contents

Introduction

A brief introduction to the tutorial and what you can expect to learn.

Lesson 1: What is Active Server Pages (ASP)

A little on how ASP works; what it means that ASP is a server-side technology and what you will learn in the next lessons.

Lesson 2: Servers

How to install a server on your computer with Windows 7 or Windows XP.

Lesson 3: Your first ASP page

In this lesson, you create your first very simple ASP file. Here, you can also test whether your server is set up properly to run ASP.

Lesson 4: Working with time and dates

Introduction to functions that can be used in work with time and dates.

Lesson 5: Loops

Loops can repeat parts of a script. In this lesson, we look at loops such as "For ... Next" and "Do ... While".

Lesson 6: Conditions

Conditions can be used to control the execution of an ASP script. We look at "If .. Then ...Else" and "Select Case."

Lesson 7: Comment your scripts

Comments make your ASP scripts more clear and easier to understand. Comments can be a great help if you or someone else needs to make changes in your codes at later stage.

Lesson 8: Arrays

In this lesson, you will learn what an array is, how it is used, and what it can do.

Lesson 9: Functions

In previous lessons, you have learned to use different, built-in functions. Now learn to create your own functions.

Lesson 10: Passing variables in a URL

Learn how to pass variables and values from one page to another using the HTTP query string.

Lesson 11: Passing form variables

Interactive websites require input from users. One of the most common ways to get input is using forms.

Lesson 12: Sessions

Sessions can be used to store and retrieve information during a user's visit on your site.

Lesson 13: Cookies

Cookies can be used to store and retrieve information about a user from visit to visit.

Lesson 14: FileSystemObject

With the FileSystemObject, you can access the server's filesystem. This allows you to manipulate files, folders and drives with ASP scripts.

Lesson 15: Reading from a text file

In this lesson, we will use the FileSystemObject to read from a text file. Text files can be very useful to store data of various kinds.

Lesson 16: Writing to a text file

This lesson is about how to write to a text file using the FileSystemObject. Text files can be very useful to store data of various kinds.

Lesson 17: Databases

In this tutorial, we use the Microsoft Access database. Access is the natural place to start when you want to use databases in ASP.

Lesson 18: Database Connections

In this lesson, we'll look at how you can create a database connection. There are several options but the simplest is the so-called DSN-less connection

Lesson 19: Retrieve data from a database

Learn how to use a SQL query to retrieve data from a database.

Lesson 20: Insert data into a database

Learn how to use SQL statements to insert data into a database. We also look at data types and the most common beginner mistakes.

Lesson 21: Delete data from a database

Learn how to delete records from a database using SQL.

Lesson 22: Update data in a database

In this last lesson, you will learn how to update data in an Access database using a SQL statement.

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