You can also read the article that describes how this is implemented.

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Feb 17 2001 ____________________________________________________________               C o v e r Y o u r A S P . c o m              Welcome to the latest newsletter!                  http://CoverYourASP.com/ ____________________________________________________________ I got approved to accept credit cards this week - quite surprising since I have the credit rating of a 16 year old. One thing to remember when moving countries like I did when I moved to America 3 years ago, your credit rating doesn't come too! So, it'll be the subject of an upcoming article which should be quite useful. To start with I'll use the forms on the Authorize.Net server, but I'm planning to get my own security certificate so you can see how to implement everything in-house with full SSL security. Should be fun! ____________________________________________________________         A   W O R D   F R O M   M Y   S P O N S O R S                   http://www.codecharge.com ____________________________________________________________ Powerful Code Generation tool for Professionals and Beginners - develop database-driven web applications in matters of hours. Developing anything from Grids & Forms to Portals and Intranet just became easier. CodeCharge generates ASP, JSP, PHP, Perl, CFML and comes with examples of Online Store, Bug Tracking System, Task Management System, etc.               Visit http://www.codecharge.com ____________________________________________________________                     T H E   D I A R Y                The events of the last week             http://CoverYourASP.com/ShowDiary.asp ____________________________________________________________ ______ 11 Feb ______ - As the site's popularity continues to accelerate, I passed the 1,000 subscriber to the newsletter today. Thanks to everyone for wanting to stay in touch! ______ 13 Feb ______ - Last night I made a simple change that dramatically improved the speed that my pages loaded. Should have thought of it before really. The SiteMeter counter that I use was inside the <table> that my page displays in, so browsers couldn't render the table until the image was generated. Just by moving it outside the table the whole page still appears instantly even when SiteMeter are down. Changed utils/Footer.asp - Remember to go out at lunch time or leave work early tonight. I don't want to get blamed if you forget your valentines gift! You can read my articles tomorrow... ;-) ______ 14 Feb ______ - I've added another page in the troubleshooting section, this time explaining what to do when you get a JScript compilation error '800a03ea'... - Thanks in part to 4GuysFromRolla, who kindly put me on their front page yesterday, I had the best day ever. Over 12,000 page views, with peaks of more than 1,000 an hour mid afternoon. All on my ISP's cheapest shared hosting plan and an Access database! ______ 15 Feb ______ - People have asked about the server the site runs on - it's a dual Pentium III 600, 1 GB ram, Raid 5 10K rpm drives with 4MB cache on each drive. Raid controller has 32MB cache. It runs Windows 2000, IIS 5 and I share the server with 120 other sites. It uses ASPMail for email and Access 2000 for database. ______ 16 Feb ______ - Had a little re-design last night - I made the site 800 wide rather than 640. Very, very few of you are using 640 resolution, and I need the right column bigger for 130 pixel banners for my advertisers! Hopefully everyone agrees this is a better use of your screen though... please let me know if you see something that doesn't "look right" now. ____________________________________________________________          A   W O R D   F R O M   M Y   S P O N S O R S                 http://www.developersdex.com ____________________________________________________________ Developersdex delivers the world's largest index for Microsoft web technologies.  Search, post, and reply to over 13 of the most popular ASP, SQL, VB and XML Usenet newsgroups. Devdex indexes over 5,000 new resources everyday including those from MSDN, ASP.NET, 15seconds, 4guysfromrolla, ASPToday, XML and ActionJackson.com just to name a few. If it's on the NET it's on Devdex!                 http://www.developersdex.com ____________________________________________________________            R E C O M M E N D   T H E   S I T E !         Please recommend my site to your colleagues            http://CoverYourASP.com/Recommend.asp ____________________________________________________________ No new articles this week! I'm not sure where the week went. Perhaps it was all that time spent searching for Valentines presents! Sorry, but have you heard the English saying: "It's like Number 10 buses. None come for an hour, then 3 come at once." I don't even remember if "buses" means anything to Americans. I have a sneaking suspicion that it might have another meaning here! ____________________________________________________________               H E R O   O F   T H E   W E E K ! ____________________________________________________________ Scott Mitchell - the only one remaining from the original 4GuysFromRolla - is this weeks hero. Scott did me a favor by linking to my PWS article from the front page of the hugely popular 4GuysFromRolla.com web site and traffic increased because of it. It was a nice surprise because I hadn't asked for the link! Thanks Scott. You know how you imagine someone, then you see a picture of them and it's completely different? Take a look at this, and tell me you're not surprised! Remember that this guy has created a *very* successful web site: http://marketplace.devx.com/upload/excerpts/mitchell/ Suddenly I feel very old. ____________________________________________________________                N E E D   A N   A S P   I S P ?         Use mine. You won't find a nicer bunch of guys.            Cheap, efficient and extremely helpful.                   http://EverPlanet.com/ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________         A   W O R D   F R O M   M Y   S P O N S O R S      http://www.hexillion.com/refer.asp?id=cya7&dest=%2F ____________________________________________________________ Get FREE sample code, online utilities, and articles at Hexillion. Add intelligence to your ASP applications! Look up Whois records, check email addresses, do DNS lookups, find network problems with Ping and Traceroute, and more. http://www.hexillion.com/refer.asp?id=cya7&dest=%2F ____________________________________________________________                      F E E D B A C K             Have something to say? Please share!             http://CoverYourASP.com/Contact.asp ____________________________________________________________ Dano: "DBEditTable erroneously shows null dates as 12/31/69 (which is probably the minimum date) when calling FormatDateDMY (or FormatDateDM). The following is a fix: function FormatDateDMY ( dateSeed ) {      var dt = '' + dateSeed;      if ( -1 != dt.indexOf('undefined') ||                -1 != dt.indexOf('null') )           return '';      var date = new Date ( dt );      return '' + (date.getMonth() + 1) + '/' + date.getDate()           + '/' + date.getFullYear(); }" Me: Thanks Dano! ______ Ken Reed sent me an interesting link this week. I've mentioned before that my email client, Outlook, is very strict on what attachments it allows me to open. For example, you can't send me an Access mdb database. If you do, I'll see the paperclip symbol, but won't be able to even save the attachment to disc! I could find nowhere in Outlook or Control Panel to disable this feature, so I have to keep asking people to send files in zips. Ken pointed me to a link that explains how to add or remove file extensions to this "dangerous" list: http://registry.winguides.com/display.php/793/ ______ Liam Cassidy: "My name is Liam, I just applied to join your site - it's INCREDIBLE, and I am in awe!  Congratulations, and many thanks for making it so wonderfully accessible to the public. I have been asked to relaunch my site - I'm doing this using ASP to deliver dynamic content from a database. I'm using Macromedia DreamWeaver Ultradeveloper to create the recordsets for connecting to the dbase.  Accessing the database tables and migrating text into a web page is easy - I can do that.  But UltraDev doesn't support binary images - so cannot build recordsets capable of uploading or downloading images to/from the database. I hope you don't mind me asking you for advice - it's hard to find anyone (or any material) that helps, and that DOESN'T cost the  earth!  (I certainly can't afford the #500 consultation fee I was quoted by an "expert" last week!) Of course, any help that you can give us would be greatly appreciated - and we would be happy to link to your site from a new site when it launches." Me: I think you may be going down the wrong track to look to store images in the database. I'd strongly recommend storing the images in a dedicated folder, and keeping the URL to the image in the database. Your database will be much more efficient that way. ______ Anon: "The example that you have for implementing forms does not work. You might want to recheck. There are numerous errors contained with it." Me: What can I say? It *is* my code, in use many times a day at my site. I can only assume that this person tried to copy/paste into a new asp file which on their system probably uses VBScript by default. If they're listening, I'd be interested in more information! ______ Steve Moore: "Have you written anything that automates Microsoft Access database compactions? With ASP?" Me: Here are a few links to read. On second glance it looks like it may be possible to do this to databases on your web site! http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q230/5/01.ASP   http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q230/4/96.ASP http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/dasdk/jolt29pv.htm ______ Bob: "I really like your site.  I am trying to add a lastupdate part to the site. It is based on your site. I keep getting object not found when I am trying to do a document.lastModified. How do you add that to the site?" Me: I'm assuming you're talking about the date the page was last modified? If so, you can't use document - that's client-side. Look at the online FileSystemObject documentation at http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting/jscript/doc/sgfsosample.htm The File object has DateCreated, DataLastAccessed and DateLastModified properties that should do what you want. ______ Abdel: "Hi James, Just wondering how easy and quick it was for you to re-design all your site's page? In which file is this code stored?" By the way, you may activate the link to educinternet.com if you want (sites based on yours)" Me: To make the change to increase the width to 800 pixels it took just a change to a single byte! Go to utils/Header.asp - there's a line that used to say:       var nCurrentWidth = 0; It now says:       var nCurrentWidth = 1; Quite an easy change! Because I had to support resizing of the tables on the client-side in my article at http://coveryourasp.com/Wider.asp I have an array that contains the screen widths to resize to. By changing the line above I've just changed the default width to fit 800 rather than 640. ____________________________________________________________          A   W O R D   F R O M   M Y   S P O N S O R S                 http://www.visualasp.com/ ____________________________________________________________ Download The VisualASP Component Pack v3.1 and start creating fast, light weight web applications using ASP technology. Try the new TabView Component plus updated TreeView, ListView and MonthView Components. The Component Pack now contains an easy to install (local) examples site showing demonstrations and ASP Script source for each component.                 Download Version 3.1 Now.                 http://www.visualasp.com ____________________________________________________________             H A V E   I   H E L P E D   Y O U ?           If I've helped you, help me help others!             http://CoverYourASP.com/Donate.asp ____________________________________________________________ Have a nice long weekend break, I will! For the first time I get Presidents Day off from my "day job", there's a beautiful sunrise outside, and my kids are being quiet. Just need an advertisers check in the mail, and it'll be perfect! Thanks Guys! Speak to you next week. 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