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[ASP, What's That?] [Is ASP A Language?] [Can I Use ASP?]
[Test For ASP Yourself!] [How You Do It]
(The following performed with Twilight Zone voice):
You're surfing along and everything looks okay, but then you look up at the location bar. There's no .html up there. It's new. Instead there's an .asp. Signpost up ahead. You have entered the Active Server Page Zone...
And there's probably a monkey tearing up the wing out the window. Now, here's the fun part. I get to try and explain this Active Server Page process in 1000 words or less. To get a better handle on all of this, I actually hired a guy to sit and talk with me for a couple of hours and explain it all. It's amazing how expensive brainy people are! These are the type of things I do for you people...
The purpose of this tutorial is to get you familiar with the ASP process and hand out a couple of ASP examples for you to play with on your own pages.
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ASP, What's That?
It's actually a pretty interesting way of doing things. Let me attempt to get it all into a nutshell.
If you haven't connected the dots yet-ASP stands for Active Server Pages. The concept is pretty straightforward. Imagine that you have an office of 50 people. Each of them has their own phone line. You would like to show their phone usage (a very business-like way of saying "bill") over the Internet. You could do it by creating 50 different pages every night at midnight when the phone bill is compiled. That would work, but would be very labor-intensive. Or you could set up an ASP system to do the work for you...
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