Re: FN-FORUM: ASP advice

date posted 1st March 2003 16:25

> hi all,
> At the moment I'm working on my final year project for my degree. Its a
> website supplying events information using asp with a database ( MS
Access)
> supplying the data.
> What I need advice on is that I'm just about to start a backend for the
site
> hopefully using asp script.
> Has anyone made one before? If so where should I start? How do you go
about
> making one ?

Hi James,

I've made many an admin section for ASP/Access driven sites. It's much the
same as the pages except obviously within the admin there's the ability to
add, edit and delete almost everything.

First step is to add an admin table to the database, create login and
password protect all admin asp pages.

Next it's just a case of creating the necessary scripts for the main admin
to control the sites content. In the case of an events application this may
include:

Viewing submitted events and validating them so they are displayed on the
site.
Deleting old events in the database that have passed.
The ability to add, edit or delete events in general.

It really depends on how the front end of the site works.

With regards to how you do it.....

How did you create the front end? Hand coded ASP? The this is how you do the
backend too!

If you uses Dreamweaver then you can use this for teh back end too.

Jon