Hi
I have been writing a LOT of webforms driven by ASP and database back end...
I'm at the point that I feel I'm repeating myself a lot in code and am wondering if I can get some tips on streamlining my programming both for efficiency of the web page, and efficiency of development.
My initial thought is to try to write a class or set of functions that can be used to query a database and return the necessary info in an array or pre-formatted HTML (whichever will make more sense). Then I simply include this class or function file and execute the function and have my info!
Here's a big picture of my current project:
I have multiple pages for one aspect of a database (edit forms for lookup tables, for the main tables, for related tables) And rather than always going to each individual ASP page to modify code, I wanted to encapsulate all the code into one Include file.
I am wondering:
[ul][li]Will this cause a longer delay on the server side in serving up the page because it has to look through many more lines of code before processing a page?[/li]
[li]Does it make sense to try to make a generic class that can be reused in all webform applications?[/li]
[li]Are there complete packages out there that I can use or development tools that will make developing data-driven pages quicker?[/li][/ul]
I'm currently running IIS 5.0 on a Win2k Server. I develop using DreamWeaver MX 2004, using ASP 3.0 and VBScript.
Thoughts?
Earnie Eng
I have been writing a LOT of webforms driven by ASP and database back end...
I'm at the point that I feel I'm repeating myself a lot in code and am wondering if I can get some tips on streamlining my programming both for efficiency of the web page, and efficiency of development.
My initial thought is to try to write a class or set of functions that can be used to query a database and return the necessary info in an array or pre-formatted HTML (whichever will make more sense). Then I simply include this class or function file and execute the function and have my info!
Here's a big picture of my current project:
I have multiple pages for one aspect of a database (edit forms for lookup tables, for the main tables, for related tables) And rather than always going to each individual ASP page to modify code, I wanted to encapsulate all the code into one Include file.
I am wondering:
[ul][li]Will this cause a longer delay on the server side in serving up the page because it has to look through many more lines of code before processing a page?[/li]
[li]Does it make sense to try to make a generic class that can be reused in all webform applications?[/li]
[li]Are there complete packages out there that I can use or development tools that will make developing data-driven pages quicker?[/li][/ul]
I'm currently running IIS 5.0 on a Win2k Server. I develop using DreamWeaver MX 2004, using ASP 3.0 and VBScript.
Thoughts?
Earnie Eng