IT Newsgroups: Active Server Pages (ASP) Programming Discussion

Length of words in a string.

MN - 27 Jan 2006 8:57 PM - 5 messages

Hello all - I'm really at wits end on this as I'm not having much success with locating a function or other options I have. I'm working on a message board for a website and I'm needing to check the length of the words that users put in. ...

RegExp Question

Matt - 27 Jan 2006 4:06 PM - 7 messages

Premise: Inserting data into a database form a <textarea> and displaying this data through an HTML page. When inserting data into a database via a text area and then displaying this data any carriage return that was entered into the database was ...

URGENT| navbar

Deniz - 27 Jan 2006 3:17 PM - 4 messages

I'm paginating a recordset result with ASP I need a navigation bar like search engines (google for example) which display "previous" 1 | 2 | .... | n "Next" Queries could have hundreds of pages so I don't want to display 100+ numbers ...

ASP - Delete File Across Network - In Win 2003

Parag Gaikwad - 27 Jan 2006 2:28 PM - 4 messages

Hi, I need to delete files across the network using web client (IE 6.x) in Win 2003 - IIS 6.0 environment. Can someone please suggest an approach I can use to acheive this. Will using FSO do the job or I have to go COM way. ...

ASP or ActiveX

Meelis Lilbok - 27 Jan 2006 1:40 PM - 3 messages

Hi simple question what is faster, ASP Code or compiled ActiveX DLL with same functions(queryng data from ms sql server) Regards; Mex ...

building a web site

admin - 27 Jan 2006 1:28 AM - 1 message

I just got back working on my website. Its taken a long time to finish but I am getting there. I got great web hosting at [link] where I got a free .com name and a good site builder. Im going to keep working on it ill let you all know how im doing. ...

Help wrapping text around an image

Coby Herd - 26 Jan 2006 9:38 PM - 4 messages

I 've built a site for a client using .asp and eveything is working fine except I cannot figure out how to wrap text around an image. Everything is pulled from the database using response.write. The code works correctly but ...

Opening ASP page causes file download dialog instead

Neil Rossi - 26 Jan 2006 8:08 PM - 6 messages

I have an issue with a particular ASP page on two web servers. Let's call these servers Dev1 and Beta1. Both Servers are running IIS 5, Windows 2000 SP4 with "almost" all of the latest patches. ...

Editable Textarea

Robine - 26 Jan 2006 4:40 PM - 6 messages

Hello all, looking for some help here! I've got a page on a website I'm developing that contains a textarea. The textarea will allow users of the site to enter a description of an item. When they submit the form that contains the textarea, the textarea and ...

XML rss reader

Microsoft - 26 Jan 2006 10:06 AM - 2 messages

Hello I'm just new for RSS Feed based on XML files so I'd like to know if somebody knows about a good ASP class or functions to read and display these files Thanks ...

Help: Dynamic variables syntax

Mr. Smith - 26 Jan 2006 9:43 AM - 5 messages

Hi. What's the correct syntax here: (given the recordset myRS with x records do until myRS.EOF txtvar & myRS("serial_number") = myRS("serial_name") myRS.movenext loop ..asp will not build the dynamic variables ...

How to send http post request in ASP

inferno2000 - 26 Jan 2006 9:25 AM - 3 messages

Let's say if I want to send a http "Post" request to a url, and check the http status code later. How should I write the code? I have found example to use WinHttp to send "Get" request and check the http status ...

is it possible to get a page and put it in a variable?

diablo - 26 Jan 2006 8:32 AM - 4 messages

Hi basically i want to send a web page off by email. so i was thinking of putting some asp scrip at the end of the page to do this... <html>.....</html> <% dim a a = page_content ...

FTP a file with ASP

stjulian - 25 Jan 2006 11:03 PM - 1 message

Ray Costanzo [MVP], in a reply on December 7th, 2005 suggested the article [link] as a means to upload, via FTP, a file to another server. ...

setting printer option from ASP page

Bob - 25 Jan 2006 10:25 PM - 3 messages

Hi, I have several asp pages which contains maps and I would like to provide an easy way for users to print this maps and they do not have to go through printer setup before they hit print on browser. I need to pre set the printer ...

question about IIS and ASP

danielle.m.manning - 25 Jan 2006 9:39 PM - 5 messages

I am using IIS 6.0 and plain old ASP. My IIS server is for development, and is currently running different websites under different virtual directories. Most of these websites use ASP.NET, but we have a client on an old technology, and we wanted to put work for ...

How does one update all records displayed in a asp page

Jack - 25 Jan 2006 9:05 PM - 2 messages

Hi, I got a test asp page which connects to Northwind.mdb database. This page pulls all the rows from the Customers table. One column i.e. GoodStatus has been added to the customers table. The following is the code to display all ...

ASP/PerlScript and reading and writing files

roger_owen333 - 25 Jan 2006 7:49 PM - 4 messages

In ASP, using PerlScript, how do you read and write to files? ...

RSS Reader

Microsoft - 25 Jan 2006 6:20 PM - 1 message

Hello I'm just new for RSS Feed based on XML files so I'd like to know if somebody knows about a good ASP class to read and display these files Thanks ...

Errors after upgrading SQL Server 2000 database compatibility level

paulh - 25 Jan 2006 4:08 PM - 4 messages

Hello, we are preparing for an upgrade to SQL 2005 and as a result of this I became aware that the compatibility level of one of our databases was set to level 65 (current SQL server is SQL 2000 SP4). ...

Locale-dependent Date&Time input via HTML forms -

Wladimir Mutel - 25 Jan 2006 11:42 AM - 1 message

Hi, In our legacy asp/web-application, we have date/time-input form in USA style (i.e. mm/dd/yyyy and 12hour-scale time with AM/PM). There is also some validation code on client side, ...

problem with write cookie

top - 25 Jan 2006 10:12 AM - 7 messages

when i try to write cookie on ASP page with the line like this <% Response.Cookie ("username")="test1" %> i get the message: object doesn't support this property ormethod: 'cookie' i use windows 2000 server ...

Use Active Directory Group in a dropdown form control

toomanymessi - 25 Jan 2006 8:29 AM - 6 messages

Hi, I am a newbe in ASP prog, and I am a little "bothered" about a script that I need. I would like to list IN our Active directory all group that begin named and start with "GRP-" to put in a dopsown list for a form. ...

Military Time Problem

Scott - 25 Jan 2006 1:00 AM - 6 messages

If I have a datetime sql field with afternoon datetime values like below in DATETIME VALUE, how can I display the time part in ASP as 1:00 PM, instead of 13:00 PM as seen in CURRENT RESULTS below? ...

How to do use checkbox in a response.write that pulls all data

Jack - 24 Jan 2006 10:17 PM - 3 messages

Hi, I have a asp page. This page pulls all data from a query. Part of the code is as follows: <% Response.Write "<table border='1' width='80%' height='1' cellspacing='1' >" Response.Write ...

Sending binary file (PDF) over SSL using ASP script

AirYT - 24 Jan 2006 8:47 PM - 1 message

Hello, Here's a quick explanation & problem: i have an ASP (iis v5.0) application that generates a pdf file and this file is saved to the server. it is saved in a location not available to web users. i have an asp script (below) that sends the pdf file to the user as a ...

ASP.NET web hosting

HostingProficient.com - 24 Jan 2006 5:54 PM - 1 message

Worried about proper Web Hosting Solutions? HostingProficient.com is a well established provider of shared and reseller web hosting with an affordable range of rates for various packages like small windows hosting for small plans, windows web hosting for medium to ...

Publishing aspx page

Roberto Hernández - 24 Jan 2006 4:39 PM - 7 messages

Something was wrong with my IIS 'Service unavailable', I decided to uninstall IIS and then reinstall it, then the simple pages can be viewed but the aspx pages not. Then I uninstall SQL server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 and reinstall it. ...

Reading filename and insert

Joey Martin - 24 Jan 2006 2:57 PM - 3 messages

Can someone help me with a quick script. I need to browse filenames in a directory and insert them into my sql table. I want to run this in an ASP page. I know how to connect to the database, etc. I just need the script on how to get the filenames. ...

For each item in Request.Form

Drew - 24 Jan 2006 1:44 PM - 15 messages

I need to iterate through a submitted form, inserting data on each pass. In the past, I have always used form elements that were named with numbers at the end, like this, name1 relationship1 name2 relationship2 ...

SQL timeout during asp script

Joey Martin - 24 Jan 2006 1:20 PM - 3 messages

Could use a little help. I have an asp script that insert information into a SQL 2003 db table. The script works for about the first 3000 entries and then give me a ..... DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen (Connect()).]SQL Server does not exist or ...

Exporting to excel

Kevin Humphreys - 24 Jan 2006 9:34 AM - 7 messages

Hi There, I am trying to export a recordset to an excel file using the Content Type below in the header. Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.ms-excel" Which works fine however the problem is that when I have a number in a ...

Question on ASP and worldpay callback

michdoh - 24 Jan 2006 9:27 AM - 3 messages

HI all I wondered if anyone can give me some advice on wow to deal with the call-back process generated by Worldpay. My understanding is that after a transaction Worldpay will send the result's to a specified URL. All of the scripts I've looked at parse ...

ASP and JavaScript newbie question

Mark B - 24 Jan 2006 8:06 AM - 2 messages

Hi all, I'm the IT Support guy for a school. They run a resource booking Access database that the manager would like to convert to a web page. I have nearly done so, using pure ASP to draw the web page, retrieve the ...

HTTP POST Missing Information

David Davidson - 24 Jan 2006 6:26 AM - 4 messages

I'm just wondering if anybody's seen a problem with their web server recently that's similar to the following: about two weeks ago some clients on our intranet started experiencing lost sessions - they would be automatically redirected back to our default page when doing a normal "postback" (like ...

ASP scripting language query

Placek - 24 Jan 2006 3:35 AM - 6 messages

Hello Are the 3 script tags below all client-side javascript? If not, what are they? If they are client-side javascript, why the different syntax (ie. <SCRIPT>, <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.2">, <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">)? ...

The HTTP headers are already written to the client browser

mbosco51 - 23 Jan 2006 9:56 PM - 2 messages

Hi. I am getting the following error on one of my asp pages... The HTTP headers are already written to the client browser. Any HTTP header modifications must be made before writing page content. I think I understand what the problem is, but what I am curious about ...

Search for Multiple keywords in multiple fields

JP SIngh - 23 Jan 2006 4:57 PM - 6 messages

Hi All This is a complicated one, not for the faint hearted :) :) :) Please help if you can how to achieve this search. We have a freetext search entry box to allow users to search the database. I am searching two tables. ...

QUERY: debugging ASP VBScript

KevinGPO - 23 Jan 2006 4:32 PM - 5 messages

I am currently developing a website in ASP (VBScript) using MS Visual C#.NET IDE. I just create a new "ASP.NET Web Application" and point to my local webserver (IIS) of my website address. Then I just go through each ...

Upload files to different server

leandra_s - 23 Jan 2006 3:08 PM - 7 messages

Hello I want to upload files to a server with asp. But the problem is that the server where my asp website stands is a different server then where my upload files must go. Is there a way to accomplish that. ...

Code not pulling enough records

Jeff - 23 Jan 2006 2:45 PM - 11 messages

Hey gang. i have a code that i will list. when varM = 8 or 16, the script works fine, and pulls the top 8 or top 16, but if it =32 or 64, it is only pulling the top 17 records from the DB. ...

430 Forbidden error on XP machine calling webservices.

Rainier [MCT] - 23 Jan 2006 1:29 PM - 1 message

Hi I've got this strange situation. I'm calling multiple webservices that are all installed on my local machine from a web application that uses frames holding more web applications. The web applications all use integrated windows authentication. The web services have anonymous access enabled. ...

ASP error in IE

MikeR - 23 Jan 2006 12:56 PM - 3 messages

<% Option Explicit Dim RS, WRS, CRS, cst conntemp, sqltemp, SQL, CNT, MVCNT cst = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & "Data Source=" & Server.MapPath("\db\xxx.mdb") set conntemp = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection") conntemp.open cst '<== Line 6 ...

Problem with combo box

Pk - 23 Jan 2006 10:01 AM - 2 messages

Hi, I have one customer request form. and in this for we have combo box with 3 selection i.e. Cash DD Credit card and i have maked another form for each selection menu(cash ,dd, credit card) so when client slelect any from combo then the coresponding form should ...

HOWTO: Detect outgoing email has left Queue folder

Dan Sikorsky - 23 Jan 2006 2:25 AM - 4 messages

I can send email using C# and SMTP, but keep closing the connection before the .eml file has left the Queue folder. The length of time the .eml file stays in the Queue folder is dependent on the size of that file; big or many ...

Joining two tables from two different database using ASP?

Coquette - 23 Jan 2006 12:59 AM - 3 messages

Hi all. I'm new here. I wanted to ask your opinion about *joining two tables* from *two different database* together. Is *that* possible? My project requires me to join identical tables from different database; *eg. MyTable* from *Friends.mdb* and *Foes.mdb* respectively. Is that achievable? I do hope anyone here can enlighten me on this one because I am really a newbie in using Access DB and also I'm using *ASP* in this project. Hope anyone here can give me starters for to me to start on. :) -- Coquette ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posted via [link] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ...

ASP pages aren't working

Jeff Hofstetter - 22 Jan 2006 10:49 PM - 4 messages

I have setup a new IIS 6.0 server and have copied two web sites from an existing IIS 6.0 server to the new server. On the old server the ASP pages work fine. On the new server no ASP page in either site will display. I ...

Order by INSTR, urgent !

Mary - 22 Jan 2006 7:50 PM - 4 messages

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HELP! SQL driven Include page not showing.

Jozef - 22 Jan 2006 7:02 PM - 2 messages

Hello, Is there a trick to using a vbscript / SQL server field value for an include page line? The SQL Server field "tContentPage" contains a text value "test.asp" I am trying to call this "test.asp" page (which is just straight text <p> ...

anyone..asp for streaming

adiela - 22 Jan 2006 6:10 AM - 2 messages

hello everyone..i would like to ask something regarding my project.. i've been planning to develop a website using asp code for streaming multimedia features...unfortunatly...i have zero knowledge bout all this things that needed...can someone give me a rough guideline bout what should i do step-by-step... such as..what database should i use...how can i store or create a database that can hold my multimedia files? ...

ASP not working, but same code in VBS works

San Diego Guy - 22 Jan 2006 12:18 AM - 1 message

Hi all! I'm working with a SDK provided for some X10 software I have. If I use the code in an ASP page, nothing happens.. no error, just nothing. I haven't had a problem with ASP in the past on this computer ...