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<i><b>Originally posted by : Jeremy C. Wright (jeremywright@graphic-designer.com)</b></i><br /><br />1. A solid online ASP Tutorial, as I've looked everywhere and found none that are any good (Not just asp, but asp working with VBSCript and Databases)<br /><br />2. How in the world do I make it so that my ASP file displays records... I realize that this is the most basic of all questions and I'm gonna get kicked in the head... But if I could understand this, I know I could get somewhere by myself.<br /><br />Using Access for DB (currently) file is called booktest.mdb and IS registered in ODBC (using PWS for testing purposes) table I want is called "default" and the record I want to retrieve is in field "Name"<br /><br />How would I go about having a URL like this entered:<br /><br />http://[myweb]/books/process.asp?name="The Lost Tribe"<br /><br />And having the asp page read that and then return the record with the Name: The Lost Tribe ?<br /><br />Hope y'all can help... I don't know how this forum system works, so please respond by email (unless it automaticallly sends an email when someone replies) to: jeremywright@graphic-designer.com<br /><br />Thanx!<br /><br />Jeremy

<i><b>Originally posted by : Oliver (oliver@idea-uk.com)</b></i><br /><br />I really suggest getting a book by WROX called ASP 3<br /><br />This will help you connect to databases and will help you with your querystrings i.e something.asp?name=jungle&book<br /><br />The question is how do you want to trap the data you are passing to the database?<br /><br />Is this a straight forward form or a hyperlink<br /><br />a button could choose one book name or another could pick a different book.<br /><br />Alternatively this could be typed in a text box which would do a dbase lookup.<br /><br />The secret to development is doing as much of the processing at the backend as possible and as little at the front end as possible.<br /><br />Also you need to work out if your solution is to be scaleable or not.<br /><br />You need to read up about stored procedures if you are using a powerful dbase, otherwise you can do direct queries if the solution is small.<br /><br />Hope that helps.<br /><br />P.s getting a tool like Interdev + a book will really help.<br /><br />------------<br />Jeremy C. Wright at 9/5/2000 2:21:50 PM<br /><br /><br />1. A solid online ASP Tutorial, as I've looked everywhere and found none that are any good (Not just asp, but asp working with VBSCript and Databases)<br /><br />2. How in the world do I make it so that my ASP file displays records... I realize that this is the most basic of all questions and I'm gonna get kicked in the head... But if I could understand this, I know I could get somewhere by myself.<br /><br />Using Access for DB (currently) file is called booktest.mdb and IS registered in ODBC (using PWS for testing purposes) table I want is called "default" and the record I want to retrieve is in field "Name"<br /><br />How would I go about having a URL like this entered:<br /><br />http://[myweb]/books/process.asp?name="The Lost Tribe"<br /><br />And having the asp page read that and then return the record with the Name: The Lost Tribe ?<br /><br />Hope y'all can help... I don't know how this forum system works, so please respond by email (unless it automaticallly sends an email when someone replies) to: jeremywright@graphic-designer.com<br /><br />Thanx!<br /><br />Jeremy