Chapter 4. Editing Records

In This Chapter

  • Using a Web interface to edit records in a database

  • SQL insert, update, and delete statements

  • The ASP Session objectf

  • Password-protected Web pages with ASP

  • The Request.QueryString object

  • Regular expressions

  • Dynamically generated forms

The previous chapter covered a set of scripts that published information stored in a relational database to the Web. This chapter discusses a set of scripts that create a password-protected interface that can be used to edit the contents of that database.

By abstracting the contents of a Web site, storing these contents in a database, and creating an interface that is usable by nontechnical users, it becomes possible to create sites that can effectively publish large amounts ...

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