Essential ASP for Web Professionals

Introduction

Welcome to the book.

This is an ASP cookbook. Each chapter contains one or more recipes that work together in a useful way. Briefly:

• Chapter 1 is basically a tutorial, with a couple of very simple scripts that add dates to HTML pages.

• Chapter 2 has two recipes: a tip-of-the-day application (a quick and dirty way to add dynamic content to a Web page) and a guest book.

• Chapter 3 has a complicated recipe for publishing the contents of a database onto a Web site.

• Chapter 4 has a more complicated recipe that creates a Web site that lets you edit the database.

• Chapter 5 has a recipe for a shopping cart. It's the most complicated recipe in this book and the one that's most likely to make you some bucks.

• Chapter 6 gets simple again with a recipe ...