Active Server Pages

[deviled egg]

Any good info out there on ASP? I'm trying to filter my search, (I'm googled and dogpiled out!)

[Drazan]

What are you trying to do with it? I have two huge reference books that I haven't used in 3 years because I and everything that my clients were using moved to php.

Just starting out? or looking for a specific script?

[deviled egg]

just starting out

[Drazan]

http://www.asp101.com/samples/

http://www.w3schools.com/asp/default.asp

http://www.webwizguide.com/asp/tutorials/first_asp_page.asp

w3schools is usually pretty good at covering the basics. Really though if you want to learn it properly find a good reference book at the library or bookstore.

[chris_bcn]

to be honest - unless you have a compelling reason for learning it - I would ditch it. very outdated scripting language. If you want to go down the windows route -ASP.NET or if not then PHP or Ruby.

However http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/ is a good resource

[Piscosour]

ASP is dead, you should try ASP.NET

[Piscosour]

What are you trying to do with it? I have two huge reference books that I haven't used in 3 years because I and everything that my clients were using moved to php.

Just starting out? or looking for a specific script?I have a questions, there is something I don´t understand... your clients moved to PHP or you were the one that moved them to PHP? I mean, small size companies don´t even know what PHP, Java or ASP.NET is unless you are fighting a RFP with very specific requirements.

[Drazan]

money actually - running a windows server requires extra liscensing fees that a *nix based server doesn't need. The cost was sometimes double of the *nix equivelent. So in the three instances I "had" to work with asp were those sites that have been around foever. The others just moved to php based solutions because they were less expensive to "revamp" the site for the long term.

asp does still have a place, but last year php overtook it as the most popular scripting language.

[deviled egg]

D- got the title handy of any of those reference books? I wanted to know about asp b/c my job's websites are hosted on a windows server. I host on a *nix ( i think it's linix but I have to look) So, any good php books to recomend?

[Piscosour]

money actually - running a windows server requires extra liscensing fees that a *nix based server doesn't need. The cost was sometimes double of the *nix equivelent. So in the three instances I "had" to work with asp were those sites that have been around foever. The others just moved to php based solutions because they were less expensive to "revamp" the site for the long term.

asp does still have a place, but last year php overtook it as the most popular scripting language. Thank you.

[deviled egg]

so no php references?