Submitting Ratings

[ngoat]

I have created a page with pictures of antique cars and want to allow people to rate them on a scale of 1 to 5. I am having difficulty figuring out how to submit the ratings. I am looking for the easiest way to do this - nothing fancy. I am running:

Windows 2000 Server
IIS 5 with all the latest updates.


Thanks for the assistance!

[TBor]

Not sure how much detail you're looking for, but the best idea I can come up with is using a group of radio buttons for your 5 ratings. If you name every button in the group the same, but set Value="1" to "5", you should be able to store the value in your DB/file/whatever.

Something like:
<form method="post" action="sumbit.asp">
<input type="radio" name="Rating" Value="1">
<input type="radio" name="Rating" Value="2">
<input type="radio" name="Rating" Value="3">
<input type="radio" name="Rating" Value="4">
<input type="radio" name="Rating" Value="5">
<input type="submit" name="submit">
</form>

If you use "get"as your method, you will see "Rating=1" or whatever rating was selected sent to submit.asp in the querystring. If you use post, you can just read the value of "Rating" from within submit.asp.

Hope this helps,
TBor

[ngoat]

Thanks. I am unfamiliar with asp. I will need to create the submit.asp form and ?. Will it need any special persmissions under IIS? Also, this rating system will be under 100 different cars, so do I just call on submit.asp or how does that work. Sorry for the blatant stupidity.

Thanks

[TBor]

If you're really new to ASP, and you aren't familiar with how to store submitted values from ASP (i.e. into a database, text file, etc.) that you take a look for some online tutorials about that - it's too much to get into here, plus there's already a lot of info out there. HTML Goodies has a pretty good primer - http://www.htmlgoodies.com/ASP/

If you're still having problems after that, I'll try my best to help out. I'm not trying to shrug you off or anything, I just think that you'll probably get more help from the primer than from a discussion in the forum.

Hope this helps,
TBor