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ASP (Active Server Pages) is a Microsoft OLE/ActiveX scripting environment, allowing scripts to run on server-side and be translated to HTML. Scripts are written in either

VBScript (subset of Visual Basic) or
JScript (Microsoft version of JavaScript)

• My ASP Notes

(1) Hello World - as simple as it gets

source code - hello.asp

(2) show all ServerVariables

source code - serverVariables.asp

(3) State Capitals Quiz - guess the state or Capital

suggests right spelling if close enough
source code:
- quiz.asp - main engine
- quizcheck.asp - check input; give hints
- quizcapitals.asp - constant values

(4) Smart Menubar
- each ASP page here calls nav.asp, gets its Menubar entry highlighted (server side) from a static array, following a CSS layout in nav.css => 1 place to change the Menubar, same look on each page

(5) cookie - code: cookie.asp

stores a cookie with user's choices
includes a dynamic radio-button setup (one place to change)

(6) Colors - source code: colors.asp
- change colors for text, backgrounds...
- eg. blue or #efefef

(7) Database - Favorite Movies
- view all, add new movie
- source code:

sopenconn.asp - engine
dbheader.asp - common interface
movies.asp - interface

(8) Database - Users
- view all, add new user (you)
- source code:

sopenconn.asp - engine
dbheader.asp - common interface
users.asp - interface

(9) Database - Shopping Cart
- add to shopping cart, price updates
- source code:

sopenconn.asp, dbheader.asp - common
shoppingcart.asp - database biased
cart.asp - interface biased

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