Newbie - insert in access db 1

[Japskunk72]

I am new to asp. have done alot of self learned VB6.0 and ADO I am trying to make a website that has a message board. I am familiar with VB, SQL statements, and HTML and all that but I am having a hard time understanding how input from a form can be inserted into a db? I do not understand how variables are past through web pages to asp applications? Ive never used html for more than viewing information. Is there any basic information anyone can pass to me? i keep download examples but I just dont get it! I have a free account with brinkster.com and have downloaded a lot of free message board apps. but since I am on an asp learning craze I think this will be a good experiance for me! Any recomandetions on sites to learn asp or books even will help greatly!

 

[tlhawkins]

There are tons of good ASP learning pages out there. I learned most of what I know about ASP right here in this forum though, so stick around and read posts even if you don't understand the question... you'll learn things you didn't know you needed to know.

A basic overview of Form variable passing:

There is a structure in ASP called "request" which holds (among other things) the form variables.

So if you set up a form on one page and submit it to an ASP script the accepting script can use

request.form("formvariablename&quot

to access the form variable.
you can also loop through the form structure and look at all of the variables regradless of the name. For most basic programming you will know the name of the variables and use then specifically.


That should get you started. If you have any more questions feel free to ask.





Travis Hawkins
BeachBum Software
travis@cfm2asp.com

http://www.beachbumsoftware.com