[thelist] Dynamic intranet site

[David Travis]

Hi Norma,

When you extract data from the database it is not parsed by the ASP
interpreter, it is treated like a normal string with content, thus it is
sent
to the browser unparsed.

If you want to execute a string with ASP code in it, you can use Eval()
function.

About your idea of design, basically it is ok to do it like this for SMALL
sites, but from my experience it gets pretty nasty to maintain such code,
when there are changes to do. You will find yourself writing too many "If
... Else... End If"s for presenting different structure/data in certain
cases your clients will set.

I recommend to have a set of ASP pages, each ASP page serves HTML for one
entity of data in your site. To generalize the structure use ASP Server
Includes, set header/footer/menu/etc, and use them in each ASP page.

By the way, it is highly recommended to upgrade the site, if possible, to
ASP.NET, there are much more flexible methods there to develop web
applications using generic designs and templates, which will apply all pages
in the site.

I personally offer ASP services mainly for maintenance these days (I develop
in ASP 3.0 only when there is no other alternative), ASP (3.0) is dead.

Good luck!

Sincerely,
David Travis.
http://www.bachi-software.com/


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Francois & Norma Ladousse" <monaghan at noos.fr>
To: "TheList Evolt" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 9:39 AM
Subject: [thelist] Dynamic intranet site


> Dear all,
>
> I'm currently building a new intranet site with all content stocked in a
> database. Each page will be indexed: title, body, relations between pages,
> keywords, etc...). I plan to create one master page (index.asp) and simply
> display, in the right sections, the data directly from the DB, as well as
> the breadcrumb trail & list of related pages.
>
> First question: Is the the way to go? Can you suggest other ways?
>
> Second question: Some of the body sections will contain ASP code (either
> extractions from another DB or search functions) and so far the server
> either ignores the code completely or refuses to display the page at all.
Is
> there a way around this?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
> Norma
>
>
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