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This search form is based on the PHP and AJAX Live Search example from the w3schools.com site. I adapted it to show how it might work with ASP classic. This form finds all courses in
Continue readingWhile looking for more information on how Server Side Includes are implemented on IIS servers, I ran across the #exec directive. <!– #exec CommandType=CommandDescription–> #exec allows an HTML page to run an application (ASP application,
Continue readingI maintain a library of learning modules which are constantly under development and revision. Our users often want PDFs to print out or view off-line, but we can’t maintain up-to-date PDF’s of each module manually. We needed a way to make on-demand PDFs of whatever the current state of the module is when the pdf is requested.
After looking at many pdf solutions I settled on “ABCpdf ASP 6.0” by WebSuperGoo.com.
ABCpdf has the advantages of fairly low cost (about $400.00 for one server, or FREE if you link back to them), a better HTML-rendering engine than most, and an easy to learn API, so you can write custom dynamic PDF applications.
Continue readingThe example code below shows how to set up a form using Dreamweaver and ASP that queries a database based on the value of one or more form fields.
We have a database containing the transcripts of the results of courses taken in our online learning management system. Each online SCORM course has several sections or lessons. This form checks the status and score on each individual lesson, given the user’s id and the course code.
The tables and fields involved are:
You can use serverside variables to drive client-side javascripts. Server-side variables get processed and the results output by the time the page is rendered, so the value of the variable can be used in client-side functions.
In an ASP application I’m working with, I wanted a different tooltip to show up on each tab, depending on what the tab title was. There is a server-side variable called “tabs[i].title”. So I created a little client-side function to test the value of the title on each tab.
<script>
var tabName ;
function whichTab(tabTitle){
if (tabTitle == 'Summary'){
tabName = Summary;
}
else if (tabTitle == 'Plan Details'){
tabName = PlanDetails;
}
else if (tabTitle == 'Certifications'){
tabName = Certifications;
}
else if (tabTitle == 'Transcript'){
tabName = Transcript;
}
}
</script>
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