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I've had to randomise content before to display a variety of tips on the load of a page, so this may help:

I've included some extra formatting as it was simple text before and it works ok - you...

Problem with using the alert is you are not giving the user a real choice - the alert only displays "OK" so the user doesn't get opportunity to change their mind - so it's probably not what you're...

are you wanting to drill down to a lower and lower level of detail - so you go from departments, to a department, to individuals, to an individual etc etc (that kind of thing)?

would it be...

Thanks buntine,

now sorted mostly due to being able to see what the error was!!

Turned out that in my globals file, I was defining a variable to store the base directory of my website using...

I've added Response.Buffer = true; at the start of my main page that collects the login info and at the start of the ASP page that's called to validate.

Still nothing - i get an HTTP 500 internal...

This is my code at the moment to validate a username and password.

The asp is called from the login page when the user submits the request to login, passing the two values in the URL (not ideal...

This is good advice - especially when someone else might be picking up your code.

Also - another guideline I tend to use is to use names for variables and functions that explicitly describe what...

At the moment the web server software is running on my own PC (IIS) so I have complete control and have set the permissions to Read and Write - just checked again and it's inherited through the...

Seems that whenever I try to use either the OpenTextFile or the CreateTextFile methods from the FileSystemObject to create a file the system hangs.

Here's the code I'm trying to use (ASP...

Post the code your using to define the rs variable and the query your sending and we can take a look...

just did a search in Google.com using "HTTP HEAD request".

As far as I can understand it you can use the RESPONSE TIMER property to see if a response has been received from a request...before I...

I'm toying with the idea of all this too.

I've had the same advice from buntine as he's posted here, which I agree is a simpler solution. Seeing as I like to complicate things, I'm looking at...

I'm doing this at the moment - here's how I do it using ASP:


function openDatabase()
{
// you can always pass in a connection string here instead if // necessary depending on what you...

Yes - you are correct - the image data is already a given in that it is stored as a single string of three digit bytes.

So - good responses from everyone so far - and appreciated - but I need to...

Thanks for the reply.

To explain what I'm trying to do. I'm setting up an e-commerce site which means that whoever visits the site needs to see images of products. I know I could simply get the...

I'm using an Access database to store images which are broken down and stored as a single string of byte values.

To make the site I'm working on more flexible, I want to retrieve the byte string...

Could be an access problem or a problem in the PHP file

It's okay - I've come across the solution: simple really. Write a line to include the Javascript variable from the ASP code....

This has answered my question I posted today...

Simple really - just needed a bit of lateral thinking on my part which I didn't quite achieve but, fortunately, you already have...

Thanks again...

You could also use two alternate styles and then switch between them using Javascript (if you like to complicate things) to create the illusion of flashing...?

Sorry if I'm teaching mother's to...

I'm fairly new to ASP and Javascript, but I'm gradually learning the ropes and pushing what I can do based on stuff I see on the net.

What I'm trying to do is the following:

First of all, I can...