ASP SCRIPTS
ASP SCRIPTS
There are many computer languages in today’s computer world like Perl, C, C++, Java and ASP. However though ASP is often referred to as a language, ASP script is not a language. It is instead referred to as a server-side scripting environment by Microsoft. And it is when ASP is needed to work in such an environment that ASP coders tend to use JavaScript or VBScript, or both. These languages, and more, are supported by ASP.
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As long as there is an ActiveX scripting engine for the specific language installed in the computer, it is very much possible to use any other scripting language with ASP. So if you have always been using Perl in programming, it is better to look into PerlScript, with which it is possible to write ASP scripts in Perl. Though there are no special requirements for the creation of pages using ASP, there are some basic requirements that have to be met.
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All ASP scripts are the regular ASXII files that don’t have a need of any special tool for the creation of pages. However it is very much required to run a server that supports ASP if you want to view the pages. This means that if you want to load an .ASP page written using ASP scripts, your server has to support ASP. ASP pages are not opened as easily as an .html page can be opened.
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ASP was built by Microsoft and runs on Windows 95, 98 and NT machines either in Internet Information Server or Personal Web Server. You find the latest version of ASP in IIS 4. When programming in ASP, it involves scripting in Virtual Basic Script, Perl, Python, Jscript or many other languages. Though there will be some modifications to be made in these languages when programming in ASP, programmers who have written codes in these languages find ASP programming rather easy and comfortable. Of these languages, it is only VBScript and Jscript that are easiest to use with ASP.
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Gathering data from the data to use it in other pages is one of the most common uses of ASP scripts in ASP programming. These data requests may be as easy as asking for the name of the user to as complex as asking the user some private information which is to be used very much later.
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ASP programming is not only used for uploading data to a website, it is also used in the designing of forms that permit users to upload image files on the site as well. This is why real estate websites use lots of ASP programming. ASP programming also helps in updating tons of data found in HTML files, without having to change these files.
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