A small Tutorial

On

ASP
(Active Server Pages)
Objective: To expose the students with need
and use of web programming

Presented by – Bikram Shrestha

Kantipur City College
Scope of tutorial

The Server Tier:

Web Server Concept, Web Programming Concepts
based on ASP, Setting a platform to execute ASP,
Architecting Web Application, Creating Dynamic
content, Typical Usage and Examples of ASP.

Have you wondered…..

Why bother with ASP at all, when HTML can serve your needs?
What if you want to display information that changes?
What if you want to process data entered by users on web
forms?
ASP…. ASP … ASP..
Active Server Pages (ASPs) are Web pages that contain server-
side scripts in addition to the usual mixture of text and HTML
tags. Server-side scripts are special commands you put in Web
pages that are processed before the pages are sent from the
server to the web-browser of someone who's visiting your
website.
ASP, Active Server Pages – a pick of a day, my man of matches

Web – yes, definitely World Wide Web

History – no history at all i.e.in 1990, Tim Berners-Lee developed
www.
WWW allows users to locate and view multimedia-based
documents (through internet).
Architectural approach – client/server
A client – A web browser
A server – A web server
In a typical Web Application
- A top-tier,client, directly interacts with user.
- A bottom-tier is the database
- A middle tier consists all the logic (powered by
server)

Web Server
A black box, a magic box, a processor ????
-manages access to files via the platform-neutral HTTP Handles
permissions, execute programs, keep track of directories and
files and communicate with client computers.
A three cheers to IIS (Internet Information services) and Apache
(A patchy server - indeed).
Server-side Scripting
Scope of execution of scripts – so far away.
-resides on the server and provides flexibility –
especially with database access.
-Unlike client-side scripts they are not viewable.
-Thinking to avoid client side scripting?? – don’t be that
mean.
(validation, interactivity, Dynamic HTML require it.)

IS ASP a only Super Hero?

-definitely not…
PHP, Coldfusion, JSP, CGI …..
Setting up a Platform or ASP..
-a web server
-Asp support
-Few step on configuring server
… IIS Installing and Configuring…..
Active Server Pages
“VBScript has become the de facto standard for
writing server-side Active Server Pages”

Server side scripts can reside along with client

side scripts and HTML in a same single page. An
asp file has an extension as .asp.

At server asp.dll parses the ASP file.

Enclose ASP scripts within “<%” and “%>”
Use @Language statement for clarity.
Use option explicit for avoiding logical errors due
to misspelled variables.
Example:
Does the code look scary ??
It should not.
All Control, Loop structures and functions are
borrowed from your well familiar language i.e., Visual
Basic.
So if you are familiar with Visual Basic you are half
way done with ASP.
There are only few ASP intrinsic Objects for core
functionality;
-Response Object
-Request Object
-Session Object
-AspError Object
Some Examples and Disscusion.
…..