ASP is Microsoft's OLE / ActiveX scripting environment. It allows
programs or scripts to be ran from within HTML documents on the server, and the
program code is replaced with the resulting HTML code. ASP is
not an actual scripting language, just an environment that allows you to choose and use a
scripting language. At the moment, only two languages can be used: VBScript, a
toned down version of Visual Basic; and JScript, a Microsoft version of JavaScript (which, I
add, is not compatible with JavaScript used by other browsers).
When you put scripts inside HTML documents you must enclose them with a <% to
start and a %> to end the scripted part of the document. All text
outside of these delimiters (a symbol used to mark a starting and stopping point) is just
like a regular HTML document, just plain text with funny looking names in <>s.
Commands and statements in the script are usually ran in the order they appear in the
file, but there are commands that can change this.
Here is a sample of an HTML document with ASP script in it.
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>FooBar</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor=White text=Black>
<P>Here is my script:</P>
<%Response.Write(Server.HTMLEncode("Script
this boy..."))
For i = 0 To 10%>
Current Number is <%=Server.HTMLEncode(i)%>
<%Next%>
</BODY></HTML>
By: Matthew Holder
