If you want to read a little more about the basics of Active Server Pages, take a look at this DevNewz article. In this example, Tom shows us how we can take your visitor's personal likes and turn it into a cute story. I hope that you enjoy this issue. ASPs are processed before being sent from the server to the surfer, Active Server Pages controlling the information sent to the user. Although Perl isn't going away anytime soon ASP is on the up with more and more sites using it.
All programming languages have rules and ASPs are no exception.
This tutorial from now on assumes that you have a basic knowledge of HTML and form fields. This is a simple html page with a form on it to gather information from the user, we want to know their name, favourite colour and favourite animal. We will ask for the information contained in these fields later using these name tags. The details entered into the form are being posted to story.asp this is the ASP script that we are about to write. Compiling story.asp Any text editor can be used to write an ASP, notepad etc.