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Let’s code our first ASP page. To do this write out
the following code in your choice of development environment.
<HTML>
<BODY>
<B>Welcome to my webpage hosted on PWS!</B>
<BR>The time is
now: <%=Response.Write(TIME())%>
<BR>
</BODY>
</HTML> |
Save the file in the c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\ directory
on your machine and name it default.asp. Try accessing your website by
opening a browser and typing http://127.0.0.1/default.asp or
http://yourmachinename/default.asp. 127.0.0.1 is what is called the
loopback address and is the TCP\IP address that points at your machine.
The text: Welcome to my webpage hosted on PWS! should now show up. On the
line under you should read "The time is now:" followed by the current
time. Like this only
without the Back link. If the time is showing up correctly you have a
working ASP server running on your PC!. If the time does not show up
correctly then something is wrong with the installation of personal web
server
Now that we have an ASP page. Lets look at what is
really happening when the page is requested. The code is as follows
<HTML>
<BODY>
<B>Welcome to my webpage hosted on PWS!</B>
<BR>The time is
now: <%=Response.Write(TIME())%>
<BR>
</BODY>
</HTML> |
The code color syntax is the same as you will see in
Interdev and Frontpage. Most of the code in this page is plain HTML,
however the inside <% and %> is ASP code. The
<% and %> seperates the HTML
code from ASP code. The server recognizes the <% and %> and processes anything
contained inside. Response.Write calls the Response Object that is
part of the ASP object model. The write part of response.write calls the
write method of that object. I will expand upon this more in the future.
TIME() is recognized by the script
engine as a function that retrieves the current time.
You just created your first dynamic website every
time it is requested it will be updated with the current time on the
server. While this is not really helpful it works well as an example.
Now lets take a look at the object model so that we
get a better idea of what all ASP
supports. | 
