Janet wrote: I know this isn't a FrontPage group but I asked my question on the FP newsgroup and got no answer so I thought I would try here. I have created a form in FP that works fine as a .htm page. However the page/form needs to be in the password protected area as a .asp page. When I change the extension to .asp the form no longer works (I get no acknowledgement page and no email of the form results).
J.R. replied: The FrontPage extension processor doesn't process ASP pages. Just like the ASP engine has to look at the file and process everything between the <% %>'s the FP Extension engine has to go through it and process everything between the delimeters it uses (I'm not really sure what they are.) [. . .] Your page can either get processed by the FPExt processor, or by the ASP processor, not both; it depends on the file extension. There is no way to force a file through both processors. ASP and FrontPage extensions CAN exist on the same server, and within the same site. A fully functional ASP page can call an HTM page with fully functional FrontPage components, and vice versa; you can even use frames to display an HTM and ASP at the same time. [. . .] But, each individual file will only get processed by a single engine. Tim: I'm pretty sure J.R.'s correct...we have a couple of sites that have both FP and ASP pieces on them, and they both work fine, but don't interact as far as preprocessing goes. To really do it properly you'll need to rewrite the FP components as ASP, which may not really be all that difficult depending on what you're doing. J.R. then posted: After all, this _is_ a developers' group. Tim: OUCH!!! :-) No smilies to ease the point on that dart? LOL I daresay as developers *most* of us have used tools that were not of our own choice. Janet did ask to not have her wrists slapped. FP, flawed as it is, performs one miraculous task: it gives the users the ability to muck around in their own website, and (at least in my company) once they've done that, they're responsible for it. LOL again Tim ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
