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I am currently running on a server that does not support ASP. What are my programming options if i want to do form extraction, eg. user registration, things of that sort without ASP. I am really lost with all the different cgi, php and everything else that is out there. I can't seem to understand if they all do the same thing just in a different language (like basic and c++) or they are for different uses. That's why I think that I need to get my hands on some books that explain these things more in detail. For now though, in your opinion which would be the best language (easy and versatile) to have access to forms, hit counters, search engines, etc. Otherwise, can someone tell me some affordable servers around $8/month or so which support ASP? Thanks.

Although ASP makes form handling simple, it isn't necessary. Javascript is one good tool for writing client side scripts to create and send form data, and for composing server scripts for extracting the information. One decent hosting service that supports ASP is Readyhosting.com[^]. At $99/ year they're quite affordable, and the services they provide are very good, including 500MB space, unlimited email addresses, unmetered data transfer, and unlimited databases. After you host you first site, all future sites are 1/2 price though you can bill your customers full rate. Also, if you use them to register a domain for a customer they renew it at no charge for as long as the site is hosted with them.

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All server-side scripting methods do the same thing in different languages. All of them make the form data available, but the syntax is different.

Check out www.ucvhost.com[^]. You can get a domain for USD$10 and then basic ASP hosting for USD$1/month with unlimited pop3 etc.

I've had a reasonable experience but make sure you double check some things like your DNS setup (www.dnsreport.com). They're a bit scabby in some areas but you've just got to tell them and they'll fix it.

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http://www.WebHost4Life.com/default.asp?refid=oumcyouth

Webhost4life.com is what i'm currently using (for a side website)(the cheapest option is $5).

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Thanks for the link, that looks like a pretty good deal, especially the unlimited bandwith. I wish they had a little more web space even though I am currently using less than 1 MB at the host I am with now. I will give it some serious thought. How is the server speed like? Could you post a link to your site so I could check it out?

http://oumcyouth.com[^]. The servers are quick (but there isn't many people that visit the site though.

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How come the "Copy Project" option in VS.NET is always disabled whenever I need to transfer a finished web service on my local computer to my remote web host's server? (I was always able to use this method to tranfer my ASP.NET projects).

Therefore, I had to copy the files manually via FTP. The files I copied were:

1) myService.asmx
2) myService.vsdisco
3) global.asax
4) web.config
5) bin folder which contains: myService.dll

All these files and the "bin" folder were copied to a folder called MyServiceFolder located at the root of my website's directory structure. But whenever I try to access the service (http://www.mysite.com/MyServiceFolder/myService.asmx) it fails. And it will not display the specific error because it could not locate the web.config (where <customerrors="off">).

However, when I move the web.config file out of the MyServiceFolder and into the parent folder, and tried it again, it was able to tell me the specific error: "Parser Error Message: Could not create type 'MyNamespace.MyClass'." But this means that my web service is still not working.

After some more trial and error, I was able to access my web service. What I did was that I also moved the "bin" folder out of the "MyServicefolder" and into the parent folder (where web.config is sitting). This made everything to work.

The location of my files on the server now looks like this (which is kinda too messy):

1) /web.config
2) /bin/myService.dll
3) /MyServiceFolder/myService.asmx
3) /MyServiceFolder/myService.vsdisco
4) /MyServiceFolder/global.asax

But the point is that I want to be able to organize all of my projects (web service, asp.net apps, etc) into their own folders on the server. So my big question is how can I put this web service into one folder such as MyServiceFolder, and make it work?

Is there some configuration/setup file where I can edit the path directories?

My other big question is how come I cannot use the "Copy Project" option to transfer web services to a remote server?

PLEASE HELP! Thanks.

I need to add a search engine in my HTML webpage. It should search with in the scope of that weblink only. Can some body help me?

Dhirendra

Dhirendra wrote:
I need to add a search engine in my HTML webpage.

Have a look at the following free service provided by Google:
http://www.google.com.au/services/free.html[^]

Good luck,
Victor

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I have a simple web service that accepts a xmlDocument as a [in] paramter, It works fine in most cases, however I get a exception thrown if I pass in xml that has base64 encoded data inside an element. It's like it can't serialize the xml into the soap package. The funny thing is if I convert the xmlDocument to a string and pass it to we method that accepts a string parameter it works fine. Any suggestions?

Thanks

I want to make some pages printonly pages.. where the left advs/navigation/banner shouldnot come.

These stuffs are arranged as include files and placed in tables in my pages.

I got an idea of having a variable that gets selected on clicking the 'print page' button... and that will hide my banners. But this refreshed my page and the already entered variables... in textbox/listbox... got lost. I was forced to do it again. Any method to retain them and reuse it??

Thanks!

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SPS wrote:
I want to make some pages printonly pages.. where the left advs/navigation/banner shouldnot come.

Use CSS. Here is an article on it[^]

Paul Watson
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Cape Town, South Africa

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Handy site, Paul! I've wondered on occassion how to optimize a page for printing, as well. CSS, to the rescue again! Smile | :)

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U r right... CSS.. That made, makes, will make my work simpler for all times.....

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I need to am put a photo-album on a website. I was wondering if people know good tools/scripts that can be used to prepare the contents off-line and then post it to the website, or online PHP scripts that can be used to do the whole thing online.

I know that there is a lot of PHP scripts, but I wanted to check if somebody knows a good free one.

Features:
- Thumbnails
- Albums
- Comments on pictures (would be a plus)

Regards,
Victor.

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Thanks to you guys I got some great links concerning beginner HTML. Now I would like to know where would I start off if I wanted to extract info from forms, links to tutorials, general principles, if c++ can be used etc... Thanks again.

You might find some answers to your questions at:
html.faqts.com[^]

Regards,
Victor

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hi,
i dont know any thing about vedio conference
and i wannt to programming it,could you help me to do that?

salah
gis member

I felt crazy when I was just doing some coding in my ASP file.

Actually I started my ASp coding without knowing anything and started telling myself as a web-programmer. The problem started here....

I was trying to put a dropdownlist in the page by storing some variables in a twodimensional array (the code is withing my <javascript> part). The thing worked fine. I was storing the values for the array hardcoded. One fineday, I wanted to change the data and descided to make it dynamic.. pickling from the database.

And I struck there. All the databse operations I was carrying around was with my ASP coding... ie. within my <% ... %> code. And the javascript in the ... code. Now, what I am trying makes me out the ASP code (database operation) into the <javascript> code. And that doesnt work.

Am I doing right?? Else, am I wrong basically?? I am getting crazy!!!

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Education ruined me!.

Im not 100% sure what you mean, neither am I experienced with ASP, but cant you use ASP to output the code for the dropdownlist?

' Get info from database here.

Response.Write("<select name=bla>" & vbCRLF);

Dim i As Integer
For i = 0 To 10
   Response.Write("<option value=" & dbData[i] & ">" & dbData[i] & "</option>" & vbCRLF);
Next i

Response.Write("</select>" & vbCRLF);

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Nnamdi Onyeyiri wrote:
Im not 100% sure what you mean

Even, I was confused a bit after reading mine again.... sorry for that.

I got ur code.... Thanks...

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Hi, everyone!

I want to write a mini media player using Java language.
Where can I find some samples?

Cheers,
George

Hi all,
Please help

In my first card I ask for 3 user inputs. Where you want to start and end your journey and a time you want to travel after, in the format 12:25

<wml>

<card id="card1" title="Journey Planner">
<do type="accept" label="Next">
<go href="#card2">

Enter Start Station

Enter Destination Station

Enter Time

_The problem________________________________________________
In my second card I want to connect to a database in MicroSoft Access and use these variables in an Sql statement. I don't know the correct syntax for connecting to the database or for using the variables in my Sql statement. The Sql statement is incomplete, I just want to know how to use variables within it, setting them equal to something and saying something > $variable
________________________________

<card id="card2" title="Display results">

<%
Dim SqlJunk
'Create a connection odject
Set dbGlobalWeb = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")

'Database connection info and driver
rsGlobalWeb = "DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};uid=; DBQ=" & Server.MapPath("\.....\database.mdb")

'Set an active connection to the Connection object
dbGlobalWeb.Open rsGlobalWeb

SqlJunk = "SELECT Start.StationName AS Start, Start.Time AS JourneyTime, Destination.StationName AS End FROM Station AS Start, Station AS End, Time AS JourneyTime WHERE Start.StationName LIKE '%" & $Start & "%' AND Destination.Station LIKE '%" & $End & "%' AND Start.Time > #" & $Statement & "#"

Set rsGlobalWeb = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
rsGlobalWeb.Open SqlJunk, dbGlobalWeb, 3

'Now I must display the results
<%=rsGlobalWeb("Start")%>
<%=rsGlobalWeb("JourneyTime")%>
<%=rsGlobalWeb("End")%>

%>

Damien

I wanted to setup a mailing list in the site. My friend suggested imail. And that is supported by my website too. So... I want to learn about it....

Any good tutorial/link for imail please!!!

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Education ruined me!.