Form Processing

A quick tutorial to show you the basics of form submission and handling.

This script shows how to send an email via the CDONTS objects available to ASP 3.0. It will take a selection of form input, create the required e-mail objects, send the e-mail to the specified recipient and then redirect the user to a confirmation page, thanking them for their input.

Handling forms and processing the data you get from them is one of the fundamentals that need to be mastered if you are to develop a dynamic site. This is a very simple introductory tutorial on form handling.

Full VBS code, which lets you accept x-www-form-urlencoded forms in ASP without limit of size using BinaryRead (Request.Form has 100kB limit), recomended solution from MS KB (Q273482). Source of URLDecode function included.

ASPRSS has a subscription service that automatically submits articles to all the ASP directories out there. This article shows how the data is submitted to their forms using the IP*Works! WebForm component.

This article discusses how to deal with various checkboxes in form via ASP. Covers: The Default No-Frills Checkbox, Checkbox With An Associated Value, Multiple Checkboxs With The Same Name, and Checkbox Which Maintains It's State.

This is an extensive article that describes form validation technique to help the user submit correct information.

This article shows how to build a forms validation library using JavaScript and ASP. Its FormLib simplifies form creation and eliminates common forms-maintenance tasks.

Generic framework showing in detail how to implement forms with ASP, with validation and field persistence.

Select boxes must often communicate with one another (i.e., a Child select object's option values depend on the value selected in the Parent object). This tutorial details how to create a hierarchy of select objects using ASP, SQL, ADO, and JavaScript.

In this final part of ASP Form Handling series, the author discusses such topics as handling radio buttons and check boxes, emailing attachments with CDONTS, and some ways of using the data stored in the registration database covered in Part 3.

This tutorial will show you how to give your forms a little bit more power. By making your forms self-referencing, you can open up whole new areas of functionality with your web applications.

The checkbox object is coded along the same lines as radio buttons, however each checkbox must get its own unique name since the state of "checked" or "not checked" will be passed to ASP for each box. Remember that you can set more than one option to be checked. Complete source code provided for the example.