Q5800 What is ASP?

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ASP or Active(X) Server Pages is a Microsoft CGI-like technology that allows you to create dynamically generated web pages from the server side using a scripting language such as VBScript or JavaScript.

It has certain built-in 'objects' that can be used to store and retrieve variables, get information from user submitted forms, get information about the server itself and, of course, write HTML based on this information.

ASP also allows you to run objects on the server which provide access to ODBC compliant databases through ActiveX Data Objects or custom components which provide any function or service that can be programmed in Windows.

Example:

<%

' HERE IS A COMMENT

' BELOW IS A SUB(PROGRAM)
Sub writeText()
response.write "The Time is
End Sub

'HERE IS A FUNCTION
Function returnValues(inputVariable)
	returnValues = inputVariable * 10
End Function

%>

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