Q: Well, reading guides just does not help me, and I was wondering if one of you can help me (if you can MSN or here)?
basically I need to make a basic shape, to guide in and out, updating, and all that. I have no idea how to do, and our teacher said if we can make a HTML page that can update / delete / two other things, Monday we go through 100 to get into our next test. I know it is very basic, but he did not really teach us how to do it, so if you can help me, please post your MSN e-mail. Thank you.
Best Answer: LOL! Great question had a little groundhog day there myself (it happens to the best of us when we discover a new language or way of doing things!)
It like everything in life, it does get easier in time and with practice and with practice comes knowledge and experience. If you stick with it you will one day look back and laugh at (hopefully posts like this as I have) and smile because it sounds just like me when I first started! 
Variables
Think of variables as boxes to put stuff into and depending on the type depends on the size of the box.
A type of "box" but instead of being on your computer its on the Servers (usually in memory)…
Which takes me nicely onto DIM which means a declaration in memory (which is what I just described a variable to mean! How nifty!
strItem is simply a method of naming varibles (boxes in memory) in this case he's preceeded the "Item" with str short for string aka just text.
Its considered good practice as just looking at the varible name you know what type it is. It comes into its own when you're comparing or doing something to them because you know what conversion to do without checking etc…
Record sets are just sets of records (lol?) in a database (or some other form there's lots of different methods of storing data nowadays but because you said DSN I suspect he meant a database recordset) which brings me nicely onto DSN or Data Source Name its a text file or registry entry that points to a database which stores all the details of it (see link for a better description).
It quite hard to give you some words of encouragement because it does get harder and then when you think you've got it sussed it either gets a lot harder or they bring out yet another language to learn or a new technology you need to use\learn its almost endless. There's one thing I can say if you do stick with it and end up liking\loving it can be really rewarding. If not no problem just do something else! 
Hope this helps.
Re:WOOT THANK YOU GUYS! it works, and I think I'm gonna get an auto-100 on my next test.
Thanks a lot guys.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
I've always run Active Server Pages on an IIS server like G-D intended, try googling to find ASP sites for how to run them locally on your desktop. googling ASP web sites, they will have guides, forums, and other help.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Originally posted by: guy
umm you can't run server-side scripting without a server? I vaguely recall seeing some way of faking it with a VBScript framework, and didn't W2K Pro let you run IIS? That's why I said to google, since it might be possible.
googling what?
Re:Originally posted by: guy
umm you can't run server-side scripting without a server? I vaguely recall seeing some way of faking it with a VBScript framework, and didn't W2K Pro let you run IIS? That's why I said to google, since it might be possible.
Re:Well, there goes my free 100.
Do you guys know where I can get free hosting, that supports ASP?
Re:umm you can't run server-side scripting without a server?
Re:I've always run Active Server Pages on an IIS server like G-D intended, try googling to find ASP sites for how to run them locally on your desktop.
Re:This is ASP
erm what webserver? All i was doing was running an IE form.
and yes I gave the file an .asp extension.
Our teacher teaches us almost nothing. So yes a I am total noob.
Re:ASP runs on the server, so if you are just clicking on a file in Windows Explorer / My Computer nothing will happen.
Is this ASP or ASP.NET?
Is the web server running IIS and set to allow ASP?
Did you give the file / page the proper extension (.asp / .aspx)?
Re:Well, I still need help, for some reason instead of running ASP as ASP IE just opens it and shows me the code.
What am i doing wrong?
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