Chapter 7 Page 242

teldridge · December 12th, 2004, 03:37 PM

Great book guys very informative and accessible.

I'm a little confused by p242 when you say that if you open the template up in your browser and look at the source code the following is displayed..."var sPageName = '/TheSoccarSite/events.asp';"

Nothing is coming up in Firefox 1.0 and I'm not getting anything either when using IE browser. It just displays the following..."var sPageName = `<%=Request.ServerVariables("SCRIPT_NAME") %>';"

Imar · December 12th, 2004, 03:42 PM

Hi there,

It should display the name of the current page, and no longer the <%= %> stuff.

Did you save the page with an .asp extension? Otherwise, the page won't be processed by ASP, and you'll end up with the ASP source code, instead of the file name in the HTML source code.

If that doesn't help, can you post the full source of the page?

Imar
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teldridge · December 13th, 2004, 11:36 AM

Thanks Imar for replying so swiftly.

At the moment I have a template entitled maintemplate.dwt.aspx and I have created a page from the template by going to File - New - and selecting the main template under soccersite. I noticed that when do save the document it seems to have the extension .asp on the end even though I try and save it as html.

Whats the best procedure to create a html file from the template?

ps please find attached the code from the template:

<%@ Page Language="VB" ContentType="text/html" ResponseEncoding="iso-8859-1" %>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

<title>GlobalSoccerEvents.com - Your Source for Soccer Events Around the Globe</title>

</head>
<body>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td> </td>
    <td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td><a href="../home.asp" id="home">Home</a></td>
    <td>   </td>
    <td><a href=".../events.asp" id="events">Events</a></td>
    <td>   </td>
    <td><a href=".../mySite.asp" id="mysite">My Site</a></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</td>
  </tr>
</table>

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td><h2>-Page Title Here- </h2></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>-Page Content Here- </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><div align="center"><br>
        <br>
        <br>
        <br>
        <br>
        <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
        var sPageName = '<%=Request.ServerVariables("SCRIPT_NAME")%>';
        sPageName = sPageName.substr(sPageName.lastIndexOf('/')
                                    + 1) .toLowerCase ();
        sPageName = sPageName.substr(0, sPageName.lastIndexOf('.'));
        if (document.getElementById(sPageName))
        {
        document.getElementById(sPageName).style.fontweigh t = 'bold';
        document.getElementById(sPageName).style.fontSize = '14pt';
        }
        </script>
        -Footer Here-</div></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Imar · December 14th, 2004, 04:38 AM

Why do you want to save it as an HTML file? For the ASP code in the file to work correctly, the file *has* to be saved with an ASP extension.

Maybe your file has a double extension (e.g. .asp.html) but you only see one in Windows because you have "Hide extensions for known filetypes" on?

I also noticed you have a file called maintemplate.dwt.aspx and a Page Language="VB" directive. It looks like you're mixing classic ASP pages with .NET ASPX pages??

Imar