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Dr. Herong Yang, Version 5.00

Guest Book Application Example

This chapter provides tutorial notes and example codes on guest book application. Topics include design overview; database tables and fields; configuration file; page layout template file; the main script file; the administration page.

Design Overview

Database Tables

Configuration File

Page Layout Template File

Guest book Main Script

The Utility Script Library File

Data Submission Issues

Webmaster Administration Page

Conclusions:

  • hyBook is simple guestbook tool. You can use it directly on your Web site, or use it to learn various techniques for writing database applications.
  • hyBook shows you how to make a Web application configurable with a configuration file, a template file, and a CSS file.
  • When composing SQL statements, all values must checked for quoting characters.
  • hyBook administration page shows you some interesting ASP coding techniques on managing table records.
  • If you are interested in download and install hyBook, go to http://www.herongyang.com/hyBook/.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 ASP (Active Server Pages) Introduction

 IIS (Internet Information Services) 5.0

 MS Script Debugger

 VBScript Language

 ASP Built-in Run-time Objects

 ASP Session

 Creating and Managing Cookies

 Managing Sessions with and without Cookies

 scrrun.dll - Scripting Runtime DLL

 Managing Response Header Lines

 Calculation Speed and Response Time

 ADO (ActiveX Data Object) DLL

 Working with MS Access Database

Guest Book Application Example

 References

 PDF Printing Version

Dr. Herong Yang, updated in 2010
Guest Book Application Example