Web Application Development with Active Server Pages David Henson

Introduction

Class Logistics 7 Meetings Class Hours – 6:30 to 9:30 2 Short Breaks Per Night Book: Alex Homer’s Professional ASP 3.0 Web Techniques – WROX Press Handouts

Classroom Setup NT4 IIS SQL7 MDAC 2.5 Internet Explorer 5

Course Overview Definitions Module 1 – Overview Module 2 – Structure of ASP Module 3 – Browser/Server Communication Module 4 – Database Connectivity Module 5 – Updating Data

Course Overview, Contd. Module 6 – Advanced SQL7 Techniques for Dynamic Sites Module 7 – Security Module 8 – Communication Module 9 – Logging Visits Module 10 – Dealing with Browsers

Course Overview, Contd. Module 11 – OLE Automation Module 12 – XML

Definitions ASP IIS SQL HTML HTTP SSL Tags Browser IP Address ADO OLE/DB COM GUID

Module 1 – Overview Client Server Communication On the Back End On the Front End Software Configuration Networking

Client Server Communication

On the Back End Many Available Options: –UNIX/LINUX, NT –Apache, IIS –ASP, Perl, PHP, C++, VB

On the Front End Internet Explorer Netscape Others PDAs – Palm Pilot, Windows CE Cell Phones, Voice Mail Gateway Crawler, Spider, Other Automated Engines

Software Configuration Common Settings for IIS –Virtual Server –Virtual Site with host headers Common Settings for NT/Windows 2000 –Securing Data with NTFS

Networking Name Resolution –DNS, WINS, LMHOSTS Mapping Drives FTP

Module 2 – Structure of ASP HTML Tags ASP Tags Server Side Includes Intrinsic Objects –Request, Response, Server, Application, Session Demonstration – Structure of ASP

Common HTML Tags

Common ASP Tags –

Common VBScript Syntax Set If…then While String Manipulation- –Left(string, 4) –Right(string, 4) –Mid(string, 4, 2)

Server Side Includes

Intrinsic Objects Application Response Server Session Request ObjectContext

Demonstration – ASP Structure

Module 3 – Communicating Between Browser and Server Forms Hidden Inputs Request Object Application Object Session Object Other Objects Lab – Browser/Server Communication

Forms Demo.asp <% If not request(“somedata”) = “” then response.write(“The data is:” & somedata & “ ”) end if %>

Hidden Inputs ” >

Request Object Exposes for use: –Form Data –Href parameters

Application Object Starts up when the first user hits the site Ends when the server is shut down

Session Object Relies on cookies Makes information persistent between pages Can be troublesome: –DNS Round Robin –Load Balancing –Timeout, Cookies not allowed by browser

Session Example … Session(“userid”) = request(“userid”) …

Module 4 – Database Connectivity

Module 5 – Updating Data

Module 6 – Advanced SQL 7 Techniques

Lab – Browser/Server Communication

Module 7 – Security

Module 8 – Communication

Module 9 – Logging Visitors

Module 10 – Dealing with browsers

Module 11 – OLE Automation with Excel and Other Objects

Module 12 - XML