Top Rated Scripts | ASP

Throughout 4 different FAQ sections - Beginner, Intermmediate, Databases and Advanced, 4GuysFromRolla.com addresses and answers a number of frequently asked questions on ASP programming of every level.

PollCat Polls lets you conduct an unlimited number of single question polls on your IIS 4/5 or Windows 95/98 Personal Web Server. PollCat works for all Web Browsers and will even remember the user's last vote to minimize ballot stuffing. Key features include: Automatic Script Installation (NT / 2000 only), Unlimited Individual Polls Per Server or Directory, Complete Format Control over Text and Graphics, 2 to 10 Voting Options, Automatic Tally and Response, Cookie Based Voting Prevents Voting More Than Once, Show Results only Mode, Hide Vote Count; Show only Percentages, Multiple Polls Per Page, Export Poll Data via Script, Only 3 Lines of Script for Voting and Results, HTML Based Administration, No Database Required, Optional Banner Page Management, Optional Detail Response Export and more.

Learn to make a live chat room without Java. Based on VBScript, this script outputs only pure HTML, and work on any browser that supports frames, cookies and meta refresh.

The VisualASP ListView has had a major overhaul, now you can Group Columns, Sort Columns, Run Advanced DHTML including Crossing Out Rows and Highlighting Rows, Add CheckBoxes, Post Forms, Load a FileSystem into the ListView and Add Multiple ListView's to One Page. With over 15 ready to run samples you can easily integrate the ListView in to your projects.

Create a system to display current news from a list of headlines. Uses the scripting.fileSystemObject instead of a database as an information source. This system uses ASP to read and write info into a text file and then format it into an html display. Updating this page is as easy as clicking the add your news button.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create your first ActiveX DLL component using Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 and above. The power of ActiveX component is not even closely covered here. The purpose of this tutorial is simply give you a start on how DLL is created.

Based on the Microsoft's article on how IIS opens up the file system on the Web server, WinASP allows you to open files anywhere on the Web server, edit text files, view the content of Access databases located on the Web server and delete records. Includes a forum for collaborative development. Use this application to remotely edit your site. Sorry Netscape users but this application only works with IE 4 or higher.

This application demonstrates the use of Sessions, state, and database calls to create a simple tic-tac-toe game. There are no ActiveX components in use on either the client or the server.

Create your own web site search engine by writing a class to do all the dirty work. Control the behavior of the class object by setting properties and calling methods in the run time code, just like a component except it compiles on the fly.

The purpose of this article is to show how to get records from an html form and submit that form to an ASP page. This ASP page will then use SQL to enter the records into the database.

Dundas Upload is a free commercial control that enables an Active Server Page (ASP) application to accept, save and manipulate files uploaded with a web browser. Main features include: It ships web-farm ready, MTS support (object pooling), ADO support via safe-array-of-bytes variants, allowing you to persist uploaded files as BLOBs, Handles uploading of multiple files, Upload form data either all at once or incrementally, Lets you specify a maximum allowable limit for uploaded data, a maximum number of files to be uploaded as well as a maximum allowable file size, Implement a progress bar via the ProgressBar and StateServer components, Save uploaded files either to disk or to memory, Capable of performing numerous file and directory operations, Impersonate user accounts other than the IUSR_machinename account, COM registration, MacBinary support, Uploaded files ACL, owner and attribute manipulation, and more.

This tutorial shows how to implement a catalog site that is build with Active Server pages and SQL Server. Along with the implementation there is source code and a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of creating a catalog site that gets its content from a database. Included are pages for displaying products, creating a menu page, category page, and running a search across a database.

Want to add value to your current search? Allow your users to search from within search results. As databases grow the necessity for the user to continually narrow a search to the item that they truly want will grow also. The following example utilizes a db on U.S. State capitals. Upon the first search two radio buttons will appear indicating a search (default) or a search within the current results. Searching within the current results will take the first search and add it to the new search and so on.

Real-time credit card processing component that works with CyberCash, AuthorizeNet, GoRealTime, iTransact, and SkipJack, ibill, verisign, exc, and 10 other processors. Integrate with any online store or even a payment form. Also supports credit card validation, duplicate charge tracking, and logging.

This article lays out how to use ASP and JScript to open and read XML files.

Give those important pages of your site individual attention. Smart Referrer is a compact product that consists of only one optimized ASP page for all funtions including administration panel, comprehensive reports and help section. Very easy installation! You will just have to add an include file to your page to be monitored and add the page URL to the admin panel. Reports generated include: Brief Report; Today's Report; General Reports; and No Hits Report that gives all the referrers that have not accessed you page today and the details of when it was last hit.

This is a short exmaple that demonstrates the text manipulation functions in .asp. It takes a string of ten numbers 8005551212 (the 800 number for 800 info) and splits it into the common ###-###-#### format.

Getter is a component designed to dynamically retrieve text from the Internet to your ASP page or to your VB program. It is very simple, smart, and supports proxie servers.

This ASP script utilizes XML, using the MSXML3 or higher parser to allow you to generate multiple pop-up image viewers for your website using just one ASP page. Now cross-browser compatible and lets you add text with your images. Example given to get you going.

The author writes "ASP has the ability to write .html or any other text based documents directly to a web server (You need to write the text output to a directory that has write authority). This enables the instantaneous publication of user input without the need for uploading files from a PC." This example code shows how to write text based documents to a server using ASP.