AIM profile designs provide us with new possibilities. And this Aim Profile Screenname Viewer tutorial will show you how to make a script to see who has seen your AOL Instant Messenger profile.First, make a file called "sn.html" inside a folder (I've chosen my database folder even though this is a flat file). Leave it blank. Be very attentive while making changes to AIM profile...

When you are writing ASP there are many environments where you can do your work. I use and recommend using Ultradev 4, other ones include Dreamweaver 2 and 3 and Visual Interdev (though these can be a little daunting for the beginner). There are many packages such as Interdev which will assist you in writing code. This may make ASP easier to write but I strongly suggest that you learn to write ASP...

he process for counting visitors to a Web site is problematic. The difficulty is in deciding just Who is a visitor? or What is a visitor? or When is a visitor? On the surface it might sound easy. Simply tally a visitor whenever the person accesses a page at your site. However, this doesn't work because you end up over-counting the person who wanders from page to page.

In order to activate ASP components and to use its objects, one or more scripts are placed on the Web page along with the HTML codes specifying how the generated information is to be formatted for display in the browser. These scripts are written in the VBScript language and are contained inside the special symbols <% and %> to indicate their presence to the server:

When a form is submitted, the string of name/value pairs is transmitted to the server and made available to the page named in the form's ACTION parameter. That target page has access to the form data through the Request Object's Form Collection. Any scripts on the page can access these form values through the reference: Request.Form("name").

Learn how to make a hit counter in ASP. A hit counter is an essential part of a site to know how many people are coming to site. Here is an easy way to make a counter. All you need is access to ASP and be able to give a write access to a directory. We're going to save the amount of hits in a .txt file so that we won't need to worry about database connections.

The global.asa file is a special file that handles session and application events. This file must be spelled exactly as it is here on this page and it must be located in your websites root driectory. This is a very useful file and can be used to accomplish a variety of tasks.

Among the various ASP built-in objects, we've had occasion to discuss and use the Server Object (to create instances of other objects), the Response Object (to output script processing to a Web page), the Request Object (to handle script input from forms and query strings), and the Session Object (to server as a global repository for user sessions). As we proceed through this tutorial there will...

Most database management systems provide easier and faster ways of extracting information from their tables. The common denominator of these methods is SQL, the Structured Query Language built into these systems. SQL is a full-service language for maintaining information in a database and worthy of study in its own right. However, we'll pick and choose the features as we need them rather than...

n our example logon script we need to look through the recordset of accounts and passwords to see if the visitor entered a matching combination of values. Thus, we need to set up a program iteration, or loop, to advance the recordset cursor from one record to the next, looking for matches to the account and password entered on the form.

Rather than retrieving the entire table of accounts and passwords and looking through them one at a time, we'll use an SQL SELECT statement to attempt to retrieve a matching record. That is, we'll look for a record in which the Account value from the form matches the Account value in the table, and where the Password value from the form matches the Password value in the table. We'll compose an SQL...

The ASP Recordset Object contains the properties and methods necessary to extract data from a database table and to make that set of records available to a script. Normally, you need to create as many Recordset Objects as there are tables being accessed. In the present example, we are accessing the single Accounts table from Database.mdb. Therefore, we need a single Recordset Object for our...

The notion is that the user can try again to enter the correct account and password. However, when the logon.asp page is redisplayed, there is no indication to the user what has happened. We can help the user understand the situation better by displaying a message indicating that an incorrect password has been entered.

Throughout this tutorial we will be working with information stored in databases. For our purposes we will use the Microsoft Access Database as our database management system. It is easy to learn and use and is readily available to most people with a desktop computer.

As described on the previous page, the ServerVariables Collection within the Request Object is an array of values identified by names. As such, this collection is what is traditionally called an "associative array," meaning a data structure of values indexed by names.