What is ASP?
ASP stands for Active Server Pages. ASP is the Microsoft tecnnology for dynamic web pages that we have chosen for Q-Shop Shopping Cart.
When a page is requested the web server (IIS) will execute the code in the pages and return the results to the browser. Q-Shop uses ASP scripts written in VBScript, which is a scripting language particularly easy to understand.
To run ASP you need an IIS (Internet Information Server) web server, which is the web server software installed on Windows servers. However, it is also possible to run ASP pages on Unix machines running ChilliASP or InstantASP, although we haven't tested it on these platforms since they are not very common and we always advise our customers to run ASP on a Windows server.
ASP pages combine VBScript code and HTML. The ASP elements are enclosed within <% and %> and are replaced with the final HTML when executed on the server. Example:
<%@ language="javascript"%>
<html>
<body>
<%
Response.Write("Hello World!")
%>
</body>
</html>
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