Actually Alan, you are mistaken, dsp_squid.asp will run no matter what the
value of the case statement. That's why MS introduced server.execute.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: McCollough, Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 10:04 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: ASP and Fusebox?
>
>
> The el-cheapo ASP-Fusebox I did was much tackier, it went like this
> SELECT Case
> Case = "Squid"
> <!-- #FILE INCLUDE="dsp_squid.asp"-->
> ... and so on and so forth. I just used a ton of FILE INCLUDES to bring in
> my pages. It seemed to work without the limitation you mention,
> although it
> is an ugly way of working things.
>
> Alan McCollough
> Web Programmer
> Alaska Native Medical Center
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Aymeric Grassart [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 7:10 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: ASP and Fusebox?
> >
> > Attached at the bottom is a first attempt of documentation for
> Fusebox in
> > ASP.
> >
> > After having tested it, we found out that all subs & functions
> within your
> > server.executed file are black-boxed; they are not accessible by other
> > included files. This makes things very hard.
> >
> > If anyone finds a work-around, let me know...
> >
> > --
> > Aymeric Grassart <-> Chief Technology Officer
> > http://www.aylo.com <-> Aylo Inc.
> >
> >
> > ASPBox
> >
> > 1) Give the current most common and popular ASP methodology and explain
> > why
> > this may not be a perfect one.
> > a. Form posts redirect to the same file, which contains conditional
> > statements at the top of the page. These conditional statements do db
> > calls
> > and other modifications to variables and then decides
> > b. This method makes it very hard to go through your code, as
> > navigation is
> > decided within each called pages.
> >
> > 2) Summarize what a ASPBox methodology could provide.
> > a. ASPBox is based on FuseBox (http://www.fusebox.org), a ColdFusion
> > coding
> > methodology. This guide is intended for developers who already
> > understand the basics of Fusebox.
> > b. A working global template mechanism that allows you to control the
> > navigation and functionality of a site through one main script page.
> > c. Microsoft seems to support this technique. They attempted to
> > centralize
> > control through a global.asa file (which has its problems.)
> >
> > 3) Explain why this is not possible before asp 3, IIS 5 (vbscript
> > engine
> > version ?)
> > a. Didn't allow server.execute function
> > i. ASP did not allow dynamic include (whether surrounded by conditional
> > if
> > statements or through dynamic urls)
> > ii. In IIS 5, server.execute function can act as a ColdFusion cfinclude.
> > b. Didn't allow server.transfer function
> > i. Although response.redirect was there, it added overhead of having to
> > go
> > back to IIS and then redirect; this function is identical to the
> > cflocation
> > tag in Cold Fusion. Would this mean a performance improvement in ASP
> > creating redirects than in ColdFusion ?)
> >
> > 4) Knowing all passed variables can be accessed through one scope save
> > quite
> > a bit of time. The ASP request object has 2 types of scopes, form(form)
> > and
> > querystring(url.) If, while calling the object, these are
> omitted (as they
> > are above),
> > they will take their correct precedence order (forms overide urls.) This
> > acts as a basic work-around to Fusebox FormURL2Attributes.cfm module.
> >
> > 5) Below is a sample skeleton file structure and sample code:
> >
> > [default.asp - using the regular FuseBox-style technique]
> >
> > if Len(request("action")) = 0 or session.userid = 0 then
> > server.execute "dsp_login.asp"
> > else
> > select case request("action")
> > case "showarticles"
> > server.execute "dsp_header_articles.asp"
> > server.execute "dsp_articles.asp"
> > server.execute "dsp_footer_articles.asp"
> > end select
> > end if
> >
> >
> > [default.asp - using the ASPBox variation]
> >
> > if Len(request("action")) = 0 or session.userid = 0 or request("action")
> > <>
> > "act_check_action" or request("action") <> "dsp_login" then
> > server.execute "default.asp?action=dsp_login "
> > else
> > if request("action") <> "act_check_action" then
> > server.execute "default.asp?action=act_check_action&name=" &
> > request("action")
> > end if
> > server.execute request("action") & ".asp"
> > end if
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Steve Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 11:22 AM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: ASP and Fusebox?
> > >
> > >
> > > Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] if
> you'd like to
> > > chat with someone about it.
> > >
> > > They're going to be attempting to translate Fusebox into both ASP and
> > > PHP over the next couple weeks. Chris is creating a matrix of what
> > > Fusebox techniques you can and cannot do in ASP and PHP that
> you can do
> > > in CF. That'll get it started, once that's known we'll see
> what we can
> > > do to translate.
> > >
> > > Steve
> > >
> > > "McCollough, Alan" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Okay, I'm wondering if anybody has any ASP / Fusebox examples
> > > or websites.
> > > >
> > > > I'm building a Fusebox-styled ASP site, but I'm real weak on
> > > ASP, hardly use
> > > > it. I'm sure somebody else has already laid the groundwork, and
> > > am curious
> > > > on what's out there...
> > > >
> > > > Also, IMHO, this isn't OT, seeing how it is a Fusebox question.
> > > I do feel
> > > > that Fusebox as programming style will grow beyond the Cold
> > > Fusion realm,
> > > > and I'd like to be fluent in more than one (programming)
> language...
> > > >
> > > > Alan McCollough
> > > > Web Programmer
> > > > Alaska Native Medical Center
> > > >
> > > >
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