Travis Horn

Boilerplate Classic ASP Page

Boilerplate Classic ASP Page

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This post is part of a project to move my old reference material to my blog. Before 2012, when I accessed the same pieces of code or general information multiple times, I would write a quick HTML page for my own reference and put it on a personal site. Later, I published these pages online. Some of the pages still get used and now I want to make them available on my blog.

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Instead of starting a new page from scratch, use this boilerplate to get started. All of the groundwork is laid out for a simple ASP page that uses a SQL server database. You will see references to bootstrap.css and jquery.js. You can either download these from http://getbootstrap.com and http://jquery.com or you can use a CDN.

HTML/ASP

boilerplate.asp

<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%>
<% Option Explicit %>
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

    <title>[TITLE]</title>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/bootstrap.css">
  </head>

  <!-- #include file="db-connect.asp" -->

  <body>
    <div class="container">
      [CONTENT]
    </div>

    <script src="js/jquery.js"></script>
    <script src="js/main.js"></script>
  </body>

  <% objConn.Close %>

</html>

Database Connection

db-connect.asp

<%
  Dim objConn
  Set objConn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
  objConn.ConnectionString = "Provider=SQLOLEDB; Data Source=(local); Database=[DATABASE]; User ID=[USER ID]; Password=[PASSWORD]"
  objConn.Open
%>
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