Forms

[Templar]

Someone told me that you needed to install 2002 extensions in order to be
able to create forms which the visitor can fill out at your website an send
to you. I always thought that extensions were technologies which were loaded
by the host. Can someone fill me in a little bit about this concept? Also,
a friend told me that the 2002 Extensions were no long supported by Microsoft
and were no long AVAILABLE for download or installation. Again, can someone
get me up to speed on these issues? Thanks.

 

[Ronx]

FrontPage extensions are a server side technology for processing forms,
aiding web site editing, and providing some other web page functionality.
They are installed on the server.

Extensions support for Unix servers, IIS on Windows NT4, 2000 and XP Pro
ceased in 2006. These cannot be downloaded legally from anywhere.
Extensions on Windows 2003 are supported as long as Windows 2003 is
supported, and are considered as a component of the Windows 2003 OS.

Extensions for IIS7 (as used in Windows Server 2008 and Vista) are available
for download (and currently supported on behalf of Microsoft) from
http://www.rtr.com

If your host supports PHP, Perl/CGI, "classic ASP or asp.NET then you can
use any of these technologies (and others) for form processing or web page
interactivity instead of the extensions. FrontPage 2003 has a little
inbuilt support for "classic" ASP and asp.NET V1, but no support for PHP, or
asp.NET v2 or later.

FrontPage itself is now no longer supported by Microsoft (extended support
[critical updates] only until 2011) and was replaced by Expression Web 2
years ago. Version 3 of Expression Web is about to be released.
--
Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

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