ASP & MS Access

[bmarzouk]

Hello,

I know that one of uses of ASP is accessing database.
If I have ASP page that access "MS Access database", can I distribute this site on CD
so that the user browse this website on CD instead of internet without having to install
WebServers on the user system. Or, is there any way to distribute websites that uses Access database
on CD's.

Thanks,
Belal Marzouk

[Cander]

no they would have to have PWS or IIS installed and the files put into the wwwroot directory or a virtual directory.

[HarryW]

The thing with ASP is that you need the ASP interpreter to be invoked every time an ASP page is requested from the server. If you just view an ASP page locally (ie if it was on a CD), it's not requested from the server so the page is not dynamic.

You could probably embed an ActiveX control into the page whch could access the database client-side, and do whatever you wanted with the page.

[anizmohammed]

hai Harry,
Why don't give me a illustration to open a database with out the help of Asp,Cgi or other server side scripting languages,

I am searching for this code from long back.

Is this possible to open a database using object tag of html
display data in to the page .

if so please send me the source.

U will be so thank ful.