ASP. Help for a beginner

[rjdriver]

Just starting to learn ASP.[nbsp][nbsp]Still a total newbie.[nbsp][nbsp]I copied a script from the tutorial I'm using into an ASP page and uploaded it to my site at FQ.

Can someone take a look at it and tell m why the text doesn't display.

http://www.bullseyecrosshairs.com/datatest/helloworld.asp

thanks,
Bob

[sheila]

Um, because FQ doesn't support ASP ?

Try learning PHP instead? Or, how about Python (my new favorite).
Python advocacy thread here:
http://www.aota.net/ubb/Forum3/HTML/001567-1.html

[rjdriver]

Well then.[nbsp][nbsp]That explains it, doesn't it.

So please forgive another newbie question:
Can I use PHP to query and/or write to an Access database on FQ?

Bob[nbsp]

[PaulKroll]

There's no Access database server on FQ: FQ provides (if you have a package plan of at least Gold level) the MySQL server. If you have Access files, MySQL will do absolutely nothing with them.[nbsp][nbsp]You'd have to export the Access database to a plain text format and import it into MySQL. This isn't extremely hard, but if you're just starting, it'll seem that way.

MySQL does not have all the features that Access has, either. It has advantages over Access speedwise and scalability wise, but it's not the most feature-laden SQL database engine in the world. See http://www.mysql.com for details.[nbsp][nbsp]See http://www.php.net for info on the PHP scripting language.

You CAN use PHP to query the MySQL database: it does that very well. But there's a lot of little (and some major) differences between PHP/MySQL/Apache web server and ASP/MSSQL or Access/IIS web server.[nbsp]

[rjdriver]

Thanks Paul.[nbsp][nbsp]That clears things up for me.[nbsp][nbsp]But I am disapointed.[nbsp][nbsp]I had hoped to keep all my sites here at FQ.[nbsp][nbsp]It took a lot of searching to find this place, but I'll have to look elsewhere for this one.[nbsp][nbsp]While it does need to feed off a database to function, the scope of the site I'm working on doesn't really justify moving up the gold plan just to get mysql.

BTW Sheila, Python does look interesting.[nbsp][nbsp]I may give it a shot regardless of where the site ends up.[nbsp][nbsp]Thanks.

Bob