Alternative to ASP

Hi,

I have been using a bit of simple ASP to handle a form to email page on my
website. I have now got another site but they host in Linux and I understand
ASP only works on windows servers.

Is there another simple way to get a form filled in on the site and get it
emailed to me.

Many thanks,

Paul.

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 1802 +0000 (UTC), Paul <paul.news@REMOVETHISBITbtopenworld.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been using a bit of simple ASP to handle a form to email page on my
> website. I have now got another site but they host in Linux and I understand
> ASP only works on windows servers.
>
> Is there another simple way to get a form filled in on the site and get it
> emailed to me.

Try CGI and perl, it should not be too difficult.

i

Paul wrote:

> I have been using a bit of simple ASP to handle a form to email page on my
> website. I have now got another site but they host in Linux and I
> understand ASP only works on windows servers.

Myth.
http://www.pcquest.com/content/searc...162&way=search
http://www.apache-asp.org/
http://support.zeus.com/products/v4/chilisoft.html

> Is there another simple way to get a form filled in on the site and get it
> emailed to me.

It rather depends on what the server supports. Discuss the matter with your
hosting provider.

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Paul wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been using a bit of simple ASP to handle a form to email page on my
> website. I have now got another site but they host in Linux and I understand
> ASP only works on windows servers.
>
> Is there another simple way to get a form filled in on the site and get it
> emailed to me.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Paul.
>
>

Actually ASP works on a few other platforms too. There is a Sun version
of ASP, and something called MONO which is an OpenSource version of ASP
(and ASP.NET). Google for these when looking for hosts.

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"Paul" <paul.news@REMOVETHISBITbtopenworld.com> wrote in message
news:d97216$ik2$1@nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...
> I have been using a bit of simple ASP to handle a form to email page on my
> website. I have now got another site but they host in Linux and I
> understand ASP only works on windows servers.
>
> Is there another simple way to get a form filled in on the site and get it
> emailed to me.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Paul.

Dude, I don't know why anybody didn't suggest it but if you are using ASP
you probably want to look into PHP since it is structured the same. The
code itself is Perl-like. Check out www.php.net. Also if you go back to a
Windows host most of them support PHP nowadays (iHost does anyway).

- SG

Charles Sweeney wrote:

> Yep, I have the jolly good phpDev as recommended by Mr Bill Logan,
> remember him?!

Funny you should mention that... I've just downloaded and installed
phpDev after looking it up in a previous posting of his Anyway, I
have a couple of problems with it that I was just about to bring up in
another thread...

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