I want o create a small site and I dont see the need for a database. So I want to use a text file for this site but I don't know how!
I know I can use Mysql or Access, but I don't want to. I simply want to use a flat file as it is called.
My site is an ASP site, so can anyone guide me on how to use "flat files" for databases
how can i format text so it can be read by a database? for example, for numbers i do cint(whatever). whats the equivalent for text?
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Both the name and id is coming from database. I tried using this code, but i'm getting error saying System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at line 1 Code:
i am building a search form by word from text field in a table. for example the table has
1. ID
2. Price
3. Note
the Note field of a record could have sentence that contains words or jargon. What sort of method or approach can i use to solve the problem? can we use sql statement? if yes what sort of?
Is it possible to store html tags in a database field so that when data is retrieved from this field the formating is retained? For example I have an address field in my database, which I return using:
<p><%=(rsType.Fields.Item("DAT_Address").Value)%>
However they are times where I may want to have my city, state etc on seperate lines by using <br>, but right now if I store a <br> in my database it does not affect the formating of my displayed address.
I have a text field i am pulling from a database that uses vbcrlf to create line breaks.
I used the following code to replace them:
response.write Replace(rs_classes.Fields.Item("DESCRIPTION").Value, VbCrLf, "<br />")
But ran into the problem that when the field is blank, I get an error that shows a problem w/ the "replace" function.
So I tried the follwoing: Code:
Question about the performance of using an include file or reading from a text file compared to hitting the database.
I set up a client's web site so they can post a weekly message and also post a "of special interest" message on their home page. Originally these messages were stored in and retrieved from an Access 2000 database. I decided to try writing the messages to a text file then retrieving it through include file and also tried the text streaming object.
I used netmechanic.com to gauge the download times for all three methods on a 56K modem. According to the results, using the database was around 4 seconds quicker. Does this sound right? The site is on a shared hosting package using Win2000.
I'm trying to write a page that will accept form POST method variables from another page and save them to an Access database via a DSN connection. I'm using code like this:
<%
SQL = "INSERT INTO myTable (postVar1,postVar2,postVar3)"
SQL = SQL & " VALUES ('" & request.form("postVar1") & "','" & request.form("postVar2") & "','" & request.form("postVar3") & "')"
dsnConn.execute(mySQL)
%>
I'd like to make sure that I clean up the text that the user inputs before trying to send it to the database. Can someone please give me an example of what ASP code I need use to get rid of quotes, slashes, and anything else a user could enter that might mess up the SQL insert?
I'm trying to put some text into the database using ADODB.Command object. Seems like a reasonable thing to do and I can do it. But in this instance my text is an HTML code which contains many quotes. But i have to save it as is into the database field.
I use:
INSERT INTO (f1, f2) VALUES (v1, v2) comand. But since my v2 contains some quotes in it, (many quotes), I get an error. (it works otherwise). Is there any way ?
As i write this post i have a variety of options to format my post such as bold, changing font, font colour, font size, putting text into paragraphs etc.
I am able to then preview all of this by clicking on "Preview Post". When i click on "Submit New Thread", my post gets stored inside a database (fully intact with paragraphs.)
I would very much appreciate anyone that can point me to script (prefferably ASP and javascript) to be able to do all of this including storing all the text fully intact (paragraphs) inside an access 2000 database.
how to display data that I have in an Access Database to be formatted in paragraph style when I have it written to my asp page - but does anyone know how I can format text to display as bolded or to show http:// as a hyperlink?
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DB.csv (Text Comma Separated Value) (*.csv). What is the command/statement in oppening database record for these formats?
I am trying to make a guestbook, wich should be accessable through a executable exe. I think, the easyest way to do this, is through your browser. I am looking how to add text to a database without entering text in a form, but only text in the address bar of your browser.
View Replies View RelatedI am looking for a script in which I can replace any word in one table
(which corresponds) to other table with a link....
To for example when the name Bill Clinton is in a large piece of text in
TABLE1 and Bill Clinton is a row in TABLE2 then I want Bill Clinton in the
text to display as a link leading to a page where there's more info on Bill
Clinton from TABLE2
I was thinking something allong the way of: Code:
how do i allow the user to add in a value that has a ' in it (e.g int'l) in the form. apperantly if i do that there will be an error... how do i go about this?
View Replies View RelatedI have two columns in my microsoft access database.
1st column is company_logo (jpg image)
2nd column is company_name (text)
I want to build a form, a dropdown box which I would populate with the help of a sql statement from my database. The both columns from up there are associated.
When the user clicks on that dropdown box, I need that company_logo and company_name to be shown one beside another. It should list all the companies availible (taken from that sql statement or recordset).
Does anyone knows if this could be done?
Maybe I should stick just with the textual part?
I'm using Access Database with ASP. There is one particular thing that I
have issue with.
My purpose is for user to update their own profile. Their existing profile
information will be display in Edit Form format. The problem is if the field
has space, the second word will not display, when I display in input text
format.
E.g if My first name "User_FirstName" in my table has entry, let say "David
Johnson" as FirstName, when I execute following code and do a input text, it
will display "David" only. Code:
I need some ideas in this if you can please help me.The folllowing is the scenerio:
I have a form which is the normal html with some validations and scripting done in javascript and i have a text box by name ticket no when the user enters a ticket no which exists in my database I need to update all my other form textboxes and textboxes with the data in the database else I need to show a alert that this doent exist in the database.
usually the event handling is done in javascript but now i have to call server side connection I have no clue how to do this.
The user can search the database when they put in a date, that works fine, but when i put in another text box to search the database for a certain date range Code:
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Does anyone know how I can insert daynamic text box data into a SQL Server database? I have text boxes that are being generated dynamically and I want each of those values inserted into the database that hold the results. I'm not sure how to write my loop statement.
View Replies View RelatedI've got a simple template based ASP page which pulls information in one of several different languages from an Access database.
The copy I have in the database is fine. All languages - including the Japanese are displaying correctly when I look at them in Access. However, when I pull the Japanese text from the database, each character renders in the browser as '???????'.
I've tried different HTML encoding, but nothing seems to make a difference.
I'm trying to insert this text into a memo field:
Set cnn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
str = Server.MapPath("database/alumni.mdb")
strDB = "Provider=MICROSOFT.JET.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" & str
cnn.Open strDB
Set rst = CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
sql = "INSERT INTO tblMessage (MessageID, UserID, PostTypeID, Subject,
DatePosted, MessageText, Active) Values ('" & vMessageID & "','" &
vUser & "', " & vPostType & ",'" & vSubject & "','" & vDatePosted &
"','" & vMessageText & "',0)"
rst.Open sql, cnn, adOpenStatic, adLockOptimistic
vMessageText = "This is a test just to see if it will blow up on a
large comment. Just testing again. Don't mind me."
Can I put this into my database field or is it too much and if not,
how do I solve this issue. I need to be able to post messages and
input for large fields.
Is there away to write data from a database field into a text file on the server.
The data would be more than one line.....
how to replace carriage return upon extracting text from Access file.
However I think it will be smarter to do it before (during) inserting text into acess file.
It might be primitive question, but I started my ASP learning just last week and many things are confusing me on this stage.
QUESTION:
What should I change in my ASP file code (file inserted data from the HTML form file into database file) to replace all carriage returns and line brakes during inserting text into field GuestSory? Code:
I have this problem in controlling a the text in a Text Area. How can I do
that for example the field size is 200, when it reaches 50 it automatically
goes to the next line. Bcoz im having problem when viewing it in my report,
it continuesly views in a strieght line and im having problem in printing.
When using ASP's FileSystemObject to create text files, I am unable to get user submitted text (in Hebrew) to save as anything other than "?????". The text file is being saved in Unicode and setting the CodePage in ASP proved unsuccessful. Strangely, hard coded Hebrew text in an ASP variable does add to the text file correctly.
Any ideas of why this happens and how to get it to work correctly?
I have a text area which I want to limit the number of words or number of text entered into it. Is this possible?
<textarea name="textarea" cols="35" rows="5"></textarea>
In the text area above, can I say limit the person filling in the text area to say 100 characters?
I have a form on asp page that pulls info from a DB when the page loads.
It them puts the info into text boxes on the page that are editable by the
user.
The only problem I have is say in the description text box it should
read "HP Laserjet 5Si" , it always cuts the text off where it just says "HP"
.. It does this on all the text boxes? I can't seem to figure out why it
is doing it. Here is the sample code:
With quotes around <%= vdesc%>
<td><input name="desc" type="text" id="desc" size="45" value="<%=
vdesc%>"></td>
And I tried it without.
I have text in a field coming from a database. The text has various
forms such as:
text1
text1 or text2
text1 or text2 or text3
text1; or text2
text1; or text2; or text3
etc...
how can I parse this with a reg ex? I tried this:
(.+);? or
but it only captures 1 submatch (text1) and only if theres an "or"
after it
I'd like to get 1 submatch for each piece of text separated by the
"or", just the text itself if there is no or.
Anyone know how to do it?
I have this problem in controlling a text in a Text Area. How can I do that, for example the field size is 200, when it reaches 50 it automatically goes to the next line. Because im having problem when viewing text in my report, it continuesly views in a straight line. Can you give me ASP code for that.
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