Was told I need an Asp page.......

[Blelisa]

I have a form, my visitors input information in this form. This input will than be used in my .exe file to produce a desired sting of characters, which than need to be presented to my visitor.

I was told that to accomplish all of this, what I need to do is;
I need to write and .asp page with javascript that has an object that interacts with my .exe file running in command line.

The .asp page with javascript interacting with my .exe file in command line will enter the information gathered from my form, and get the result from my .exe file and spit it out on an .html file that the visitor can see on their browser.

I am not very familiar with server side programming, can anyone help me at all?

[chrismartz]

I would say that you should learn the basics of asp. this is a very large project that I probably wouldn't be able to do....you could maybe get some help from someone on here too!

[Blelisa]

I am trying to learn the basics of asp now. but it will take some time. Thank you for your help though. I am hoping someone can walk me through this project though, I am on a time limit, and not enough time for me to learn asp and than implement it.

[chrismartz]

checkout http://www.w3schools.com for help

[lmf232s]

well lets start with what type of information the user is entering.
Does this data need to be saved to a database?

What kind of .exe file are we talking about?
What does the .exe file do?
What is the end result?

What langauge is the .exe file written in?

Provide a little more information.
Im a visiual person so maybe display an example of what the
end result should look like.

Im sure we can help you through this.

[Blelisa]

Okay, first off, thank you very very much for your help.

The exe program is a program that generates a key for a licensing file to unlock software that our company sells. The reason we need it operational on the web is because we have resellers all over the world who are trying to sell our software, and if a customer of theirs wants a trial version they have to unlock the software with a liscence key that is good for 30 days.

The exe program is written in C++

the information the visitor is entering is a customer id, computer id string, a date and also what "software program" they will be selling.

What they get back is a sting of characters to enter into the program to unlock for 30 days.

The exe program is able to run in command line.

Let me know what else you need.

Thanks again,
Lisa

[lmf232s]

ok im not sure about this but ill through it out.

If i was using vb for the following project,
I would create a dll and register that on the server.
Then on the asp page i would gather all the users information
then call the dll from with in the code and pass it
customer id, computer id string, a date and also what software program,
Run the dll and have it return the liscence key.

Now ive only created dll's with vb but ill take it you guys did
the code for the c++ so you would know the code and would be
able to create a dll in c++ for it?

Im not sure how the c++ exe works but i would assume its a windows
type application that has an interface that asks for all that
information and then you get the string of characters.

Like i said ive never created a dll in c++ but I would assume you
could, dont see why not.

What do you think abou this idea.