Cookies -vs- DB Table
On an Intranet Web application I'm working on, I need to
display a Pop-up that shows the users what report changes
have occurred. This may happen once a week or more and I
need a way for the users to turn-off this Pop-up after
they've reviewed the changes.
Currently, I'm debating whether to use cookies or build a
table that will set flags. I'm not sure what the best
solution to take would be. Does anyone know what would be
the best solution? I don't like the idea of using Pop-
ups. I'd rather have a link for the user to click that
shows the report changes, but my client wants to use pop-
ups.
If I use cookies, how do I create one, and how do I update
it so it knows when to and when not to display a pop-up?
I've never created a cookie before, so if someone has some
sample code that would helpful.
As for the Pop-up, I've seen pop-ups that loads a new
instance of IE, and I've seen pop-ups that look embedded
in the current instance of IE with a close option. I
would like to create the latter pop-up? Has anyone done a
pop-up like the embedded one before? If so, where can I
find some sample code on how to create one?
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In my Session_OnStart in Global.asa, I am setting some cookies. One
of them, I set as follows:
dim UserID
UserID = Request.ServerVariables("LOGON_USER")
Response.Cookies("User")("ID") = UCASE(UserID)
When I immediately log the cookie value retrieved from
Request.Cookies("User")("ID") into the Windows Event Log, I get the
correct value. However, when I try to retrieve the cookie on the home
page of my application using the same code,
Request.Cookies("User")("ID"), it either cannot find the cookie or
cannot read the value. I am retrieving the cookie before all HTML
headers are written. It is my first statement on the page after
Option Explicit. I have even compared the session IDs. The SessionID
created in the Session_OnStart is the same value as the SessionID on
the home page.
I have read that the Session_OnStart only has access to the
Application, Session and Request objects. It does not explicitly say
that it does not have access to the Response object. Also, I was even
able to use Response.Write's in Global.asa to print out the values
although it looked like it had also stopped the session after I did
so. Cookies are definitely enabled on my machine. I have even tried
setting the session cookie's expiration to be persistent for a few
days to see if it was perhaps expiring before I was able to read it
but this did not work either.
Is there something preventing cookies to be created in Global.asa in
the Session_OnStart sub? Is the Response object not available???
Please let me know if anyone else has had this problem or solution.
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<%
Dim conn
Dim rs
Dim MYSQL,MYSQL2
Set conn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set rs = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
Set cmd = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
conn.ConnectionString = "DSN=prmm;UID=administrator;pwd=sa"
conn.Open
startdate=request("tarikh1")
enddate=request("tarikh2")
MYSQL = "SELECT * FROM table_x where paymentdate between '" & tarikh1 & "' and '" & tarikh2 & "'"
rs.open MYSQL,conn ....
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'Order Detail' directly from the database (e.g., Northwind.mdb). I have the following commands:
Set tableSet = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
tableSet.Open table_name, DB_name, adOpenForwardOnly, _
adLockOptimistic, adCmdTable
where, table_name = ''Order Detail" Or
table_name = 'Order Detail' Or different variations.
I always get error on the second command with the following message:
Syntax error in query. Incomplete query clause
which I believe because of space in the Table Name. How can I resolve this issue? (working with file or table name with space)?
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Also i need to update the entire table in one go. For exampple if i have 3 records in table2 i want to be able to update them all by clicking the one update button. Code:
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Anyways, been a while since I have used ASP to work on things like this but would like to work through this one. I understand the process I believe, it is just how to make it go on to the next record once it has finished updating the first.
Basically, I was thinking of having it set up to reaad the top record from Table B, update applicable data in Table A. Delete that record in Table B. Move on to the next.
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I am reciveing this error:
The following errors occured:
- An error occured. -2147217904 : No value given for one or more required parameters.
there are students and teachers. therefore I have 3 tables one for logins and one for staff and on for students.
I have a form designed to capeture the need information.
in the code I am runing an if and elseif statmetn to determin the tables. I then insert the userid and password into the login table.
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1)First Method is cookies
2)Second Method MS SQL DB
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How can I use a cookie to automatically log a user in??
More specifically, what are the commands to set a cookie (upon successful registration) and access it (upon re-logging in)?
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i would like to put a cookie onto the users computer that remembers the url they were redirected to so when they press the main page button it would look for the cookie and see what url they are meant to be redirected to and take them there
My current login system is this ....
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Basically the asp page is going to act like a browser and store the cookie from the other site, then send that cookie back when the asp page goes back to the other site again.
The problem is, I can only seem to access my own cookie. I didn't run into this problem when I was doing a similar thing inside my .cs scripts that were run by the server, as I suppose they were not coming from the actual domain that my page is running on (and thus, wasn't getting everything trampled by local cookies).
Is this possible, or should I just give up on it now?
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how can i do this with server-cide cookies (im using jscript)? can anyone think of a better way to do this?
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trying to delete a cookie, without success it seems. The following code
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Anyone tell me how to delete a cookie if this code is wrong.
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if request.cookies("savedforum").haskeys then
response.write "yes"
else
response.write "no"
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use just the user's login name , since that is a unique field.
If rsPersonIDCheck.EOF Then
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Else
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but:
set Cookies("User") = Session("login")
seems not to be creating the cookie
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Not strictly a full asp question but Im sure someone here will have the
answer.I've read in several web sites that you can read and write to the same
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on bogus?
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the browser cookie keeping in mind the limit of 300
cookies per browser, 20 keys per cookie per domain and 4KB
max size of each cookie. i'm are unable to retreive this
large amount of data immediately after storing through
document.cookie in IE browser (The same works fine in
Netscape).
Is there any limit on the size of the data that can be
retreived using document.cookie? Could you please suggest
a solution to this problem i'm are facing.
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End If
or would i use
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Display Error Message
End If
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1. Have a few large sites essentially all variables such as SMTP server are set using cookies so I can deploy multiple sites quickly.
2. Within the site email appears to work correctly across all pages with 1 exception.
3. The exception is below, Im wondering if it has to do with cookies having to be retrieved multiple times from the client machine
--Call db run search loop data build array
--Based on data in array call another search alter and finalize array
--Do while <= uBound(myArray)
--Call Email sub (from,to,sub,body) ' Sub contains a request cookies for SMTP server.
--Loop
Doesnt matter if its 2 or 50 emails always fails when using request.cookies to set the SMTP in the sub. Works fine if I hard code the IP. This same sub is used multiple times throughout the website and works fine with cookies.
Just curious why it needs might need to be hard coded in the loop. Has been running for about 6 months fine and have recently started noticing failures.
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<%
Response.Cookies("ExpCookie") = "Expiration"
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Response.Cookies("ExpCookie").Secure = True
Response.Cookies("LastVisit") = Date & " " & Time
%>
I am new at all of this, I can understand that this cookie will expire an hour after being access on a given day (is that right?), and it will create the cookie with the printed date and time of access. how can I make sure cookie expire on time.
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information in cookies and the user prints their order. That's it. Where can
I find such information?
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like I am not able to obtain the value in Fol2/account.asp. User Id cookie
is empty. I have set an expiration date for cookie as date + 1
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