Database Driven !

[NEO]

Hey guys,
Whats the difference between a normal ASP website & a ASP database driven website ?

Is It because you can easily change the URL in the database & by this it will change the URL on every page that it is linked to.

e.g
If in the database there was a tabe called "Home" & In "Home" table there was a URL, Say "www.yourhost.com/home.asp"

On the ASP page you could make a database connection & then make the URL:
Dim con
con ("Table")

& this should link to "www.yourhost.com/home.asp"

Is this one of the purposes of a database driven website ?

Because this could easily be done using Constants.

Any help about Database Driven Websites would be great!

Thanks,

[dudzz]

The main objective of an ASP is to create/built a Web Driven Database Application or in short your creating a Dynamic Web Pages that uses a Database usually SQL/Access/Oracle...

Although you can create a Normal ASP that that doesnt connect to a Database.. But what's the use for if your using this? why don't you just use a plain HTML + Javascript..

:-)

[Bullschmidt]

Yes most ASP sites that I know have a database in there somewhere although they wouldn't have to (but then the site wouldn't really do too much).

[jsawkang]

for me, purpose database driven website are to get data/infor from database and display on a pages or do some other processing. with database driven web, content can be change easily also, and don't have to create so many pages.