Form Properties, Publishing a Forms Page

[Guest]

I have have created a Forms Page (FP2003) taken the steps through Forms
Properties and renamed the page with a .asp suffix, as instructed. I have
hyperlinked the HomePage.htm to the FormsPage.asp. I have FTP-ed my Home Page
and Forms Page to my domain. When I select the link, it takes me to the
FormsPage.asp, but says Page Cannot Be Displayed. I double-checked the
hyperlink re-uploaded the pages. Same result. I renamed the page to
FormsPage.htm, re-uploaded the pages. I selected the FormsPage link, from the
Home Page, and it took me to FormsPage.htm and displayed the page, as it
should. So am I getting the FormsPage.htm , but when it's named
FormsPage.asp, it shows Page Cannot Be Displayed?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You can not use the FP Form Handler on a .asp page, also in order to use any FP function that
requires the FP run-time extensions, the site must be published to a server that has the FP
extensions via FP's http mode, not via FTP will corrupt the extensions if they are installed on the
remote server.

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[Andrew Murray]

The frontpage form handler doesn't use ASP, it requires the page with the form to
have an htm extension.

 

[Guest]

Thank you for the information. I thought, in order for a Form Page to work
with a database, such as MSAccess, it must be an .asp page. Can you enlighten
me? Thanks.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

In order to use forms with the FP database component, the form must have a .asp extension which then
bypasses the FP Form Handler.

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[Thomas A. Rowe]

That is not the FP form handler, that is the FP Form dialog for managing forms, which can be set to
use the FP Form handler (by entering a email address or writing to a file), or Send to Database
(ASP) or Send to Other, (Custom Written Form Handler, such as would be written in CGI, ASP, Perl,
etc.)

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[Thomas A. Rowe]

When you select to Send to Database and rename the form with a .asp extensions, the form will not
use the FP Form Handler to write to the database, it use ASP/VBScript.

The FP Form Handler can only process forms that have a .htm(l) extension,

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[Thomas A. Rowe]

Correct.

The FP Form handler can not work with any page using server-side scripting, such as ASP. PHP, Perl,
etc.

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