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My .asp page won't process asp code

We have a web site that is mostly static but has some flash stuff so there are some .asp pages but they aren't really doing anything dynamic. Now I'm trying to add a form to be submitted to an employee's email but all the code I'm trying just doesn't work. I've tried 4 different tutorials/walkthroughs explaining how to submit a form to an email address and none of the code works.

So I took a small piece of code and put it in my page and I kept getting errors referring to the syntax and one by one I adapted the code to the point that I could get the page to display with no errors.

Here is the code I tried to use:

// has the form been submitted? 
if ( bSubmitted ) 
{ 
   // get the data from the form... 
   sEmail = '' + Request.Form ( "email" );
   // validate the email address and moan if it fails 
   if ( sEmail != '' && !IsValidEmail ( sEmail, hexVeLevelDns ) ) 
   { 
      // pretend the form hasn't been sent yet 
      bSubmitted = false; 
   } 
}

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Here is the code after modification that would allow the webpage finally display:

 ' has the form been submitted? 
if ( bSubmitted ) Then 
   ' get the data from the form... 
   sEmail = "" + Request.Form ( "email" )
   ' validate the email address and moan if it fails 
   if ( sEmail = "" ) then
      ' pretend the form hasn't been sent yet 
      bSubmitted = false
	  Request.write(sEmail)
	end if
end if

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Is my page using an old version of .asp? It is an old site but I got some code to return the ip address of the user and that worked

  Dim UserIPAddress
  UserIPAddress = Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR")
  If UserIPAddress = "" Then
    UserIPAddress = Request.ServerVariables("REMOTE_ADDR")
  End If

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so I'm just confused as to what's going on with this page. Is it not asp? Is it maybe vb? It's been a few years since I've coded. Maybe it's C#?

Any help figuring out what's going on would be greatly appreciated!!

plusone3055

when this ASP.NET page was made it was made

ASP.NET with VB

The code you first tried was ASP.NET with C#
which is why it wasnt compiling

so just write teh code you want to write in VB.NET as you did to get it to display :)

Big Monty

the first two code blocks looks like javascript, which can be run server side for classic asp pages, but it's not common. at the top of the page, it should declare what language it is. it would be

<%@Language=VBScript%>

or

<%@language=javascript%>

do either of those lines show at the top of your page?

Scott Fell

Classic asp is different from ASP.NET

IF you place this form on a page

<form action="test_page.asp" method="post">
Username: <input type="text" name="user">
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

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Then on another page called test_page.asp add only this to test.

<%
if request.form("user")<>"" then
    response.write "No form input"
    else
    response.write "The form input was "&request.form("user")
end if
%>

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HSI_guelph

ASKER

@Scott Fell (padas) - It keeps coming up "No form input" even when I type something in the text box.

@Big Monty - sadly no there isn't anything at the top of the pages to indicate the language except for <!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> But I'm going to try adding one of those to see what happens.

@plusone3055 - It does look like VB script I've been adding to report code in SSRS.

Some of the files in the folder are dated 2006 and I found one folder called "aspnet_client" with a subfolder "system_web" and one in that one "2_0_50727" which I think might refer to a version being used.

Scott Fell

That means it is working.

Did you copy the first page exactly!

<form action="test_page.asp" method="post">
Username: <input type="text" name="user">
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

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Scott Fell

Try this for test_page.asp

<%
response.write request.form &"<hr>"&response.write request.querystring
%>

HSI_guelph

ASKER

@Scott Fell (padas) - Yes I did but I tried some vb.net code and got this error on the page

Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a03f2'

Expected identifier

/consent.asp, line 13
Public Class Form1
-------^

Since it was Microsoft VBScript compilation error I think I need code in VBScript.

Scott Fell

You want this code at the very top
<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%>

The reason you see the folders for "aspnet_client" might be default folders or are there a lot of files in those folders?

Scott Fell

You have to decide if you are using classic asp which is what I am giving you OR ASP.NET, not both.

Scott Fell

You might want to read up on classic asp and/or .net. They are completely different.

http://www.w3schools.com/asp/

http://www.asp.net/get-started

HSI_guelph

ASKER

They are empty

I added that to the top of the page but it still says

Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a03f2'

Expected identifier

/consent.asp, line 14
Public Class Form1
-------^

Big Monty

what is line 14 on consent.asp? did you try adding

<%language=javascript%> at the top of the page?

HSI_guelph

ASKER

Yes unfortunately no one in the company coded the page so I don't know which version they used or planned to use. Response.Write works for me and any code with {}'s won't display so I'm gonna go on a limb and say it is classic asp but does the fact the error message mentions VBScript matter?

HSI_guelph

ASKER

@Big Monty - I added the javascript tag to the top under the vbscript one and I got

Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a03f2'

Expected identifier

/consent.asp, line 15
Public Class Form1
-------^

It seems to hate the Public Class object.

Big Monty

it IS classic asp, you can tell by the extension of asp (.NET has an extension of ASPX). Whether it's coded in vbscript or javascript is what we're trying to determine, to me it looks to be javascript. if it is, you need to declare that at the top of the page

Big Monty

ok, you're still mixing up classic asp and .NET, the IMPORTS keyword is for .NET, thats why its failing. also, take out the javascript reference, it looks like its using vbscript

Big Monty

the class code you have is also for .NET, it looks like this was done in .NET but somehow the file got renamed to .asp, which would cause all of these errors you're getting.

i bet if you rename it back to an aspx extension, it'll probably run w/out error.

HSI_guelph

ASKER

I tried renaming it to .aspx and this is the error I got

Server Error in '/' Application.

Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.

Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".



<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="Off"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>

Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's <customErrors> configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.



<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>

The code that is not working is what I'm trying to add to the page. So that code was not there originally. So I should look for code examples that use classic asp? Not VBScript?
The page is basically an html page named .asp.

Big Monty

it may help to post the entire pages code, that way we can see exactly what language it is. otherwise it's all guesswork

HSI_guelph

ASKER

I had been trying a bunch of stuff so I grabbed the original page I based my work off of that way I was sure none of my experimenting was left in the code I show

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<html>
<head>
<title>company Incorporated</title>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" type="text/css">

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">
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}

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  if(!x && d.getElementById) x=d.getElementById(n); return x;
}

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}

function MM_swapImage() { //v3.0
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}
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</script>
</head>

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Big Monty

there doesn't seem to be any server side code in this page, nothing dynamic. what was the page with the class in it for?

HSI_guelph

ASKER

I was trying to make the page dynamic by adding a form that would send the information to an email. I'm trying to add an html form and have it call code to submit the information added to an email set up to receive those forms. I just couldn't figure out why the code I was using wasn't working but I see it was the mix up between classic ASP, ASP.NET, and VBScript. I'm trying the code from the w3schools to see if I can get it working now.

I did have some code working but it was sending emails every time the page was loaded, lol.

Scott Fell

Classic ASP is either paired with serverside vbscript or serveside jscript. You really should just use vbscript. Jscript is Microsoft's implementation of serverside javscript and runs very slow.

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HSI_guelph

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TYVM!!!!