Active Server Pages

• Client-side vs. server-side web technologies
• The client-server relationship
• Web servers that support ASP

Writing ASP Pages

• ASP code in an HTML context
• ASP code is "language neutral"
• VBScript statements to execute in ASP
• Enclosing scripting code within your ASPs
• Strings in VBScript
• Developing ASPs
• Directives, statements, expressions, and comments
• VBScript flexibility & good programming practices
• File includes

Processing Data from Online Forms

• <FORM> tag
• ASP objects
• Request and response objects
• Scalar variables in ASP

Conditional Constructs with "If"

• Comparison operators in VBScript
• Adding an else clause
• Adding ElseIf clauses
• The logical AND and OR
• Combining the form and its code in one ASP file

Working with Cookies

• Setting and retrieving a cookie
• Cookie properties
• Expiring a cookie

Maintaining State with the Session and Application Objects

• Session object
• Storing and retrieving values
• Session properties and methods
• Application object
• The global.asa file

Working with Components

• Instantiating component objects
• Sending email with CDO
• CDO.configuration and properties
• CDONTS

Writing to a Text File

Loop Structures

• for…next loops
• Populating SELECT lists with for...next loops
• Creating form fields with for…next loops
• Collections in ASP
• for each…next loops and collections

ASP-to-Database Integration with ADO

• Databases
• Issuing database commands with SQL
• The ADO Object Model
• Selecting and viewing data from guestbook.mdb
• Database connectivity with view.asp
• The connection object’s execute method
• Building an interface for updating client records

VBScript Subroutines and Functions

• Subroutines
• Functions

Drilling Down and the Query String

• Building the query string into a link
• Generating drill down links dynamically