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This is part 3 of 6 of ASP 101 by AaronOutpost.com. If you are unsure of what we
may be talking about in the tutorial, view the previous parts.
So far we have created your first ASP page and we
have defined a value and displayed it on the page. We are now going to take that
exact same page and modify it. I am going to show you how to mix ASP with HTML.
Let's begin.
Part 3:
Date & Time
START YOUR PAGES
Open your favorite text or HTML
editor. It can be FrontPage, NotePad, FireWorks, Arachnophilia, etc... It
don't matter.
Open
first_asp_page_part1.asp, the file we modified in
part 2. Your code should look like
this.
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<html>
<head>
<title>My
First ASP Page</title>
</head>
<body
bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"
link="#003300" vlink="#006600"
alink="#689577">
<%
'Dimension
variables
Dim
MyVariable 'Comment on what this variable holds
<br><br>
<font face="Arial" size="2" color="#000000"><%= MyVariable
%></font>
</body>
</html> |
Date & Time Functions
The most popular functions are Now, Time, and Date().
The Now function includes Date & Time.
There is
also the Time() function which only includes the time.
Date() is the date only in your format. US MM/DD/YYYY
So using what we learned in Mix ASP
with HTML let's display the Now and Time Functions
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Server Date &
Time is: <%=
Now() %>
Server Time is:
<%= Time() %>
Server Date is:
<%= Date() %> |
You can also strip the hour using
the hour function and same for Minute and Second.
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Current Hour is:
<%=
Hour(Now()) %>
Current Minute
is: <%=
Minute(Now()) %>
Current Second
is: <%=
Second(Now()) %> |
This can similarly
be done with other portions. I am sure you can figure out each of the ones
below.
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Integer for this
month:
<%= Month(Date()) %>
Month name for this month
is: <%=
MonthName(Month(Date())) %>
Integer for this
year:
<%= Year(Date()) %>
Day is:
<%= Day(Date())
%> |
You can also format the date and
time listed using the DateFormat function. You can use Date, Time, or now
function inside this function where you see Date.
The following table has been exerted from
http://msdn.microsoft.com which has many
more descriptions of built in functions.
| Constant | Value | Description |
| vbGeneralDate | 0 | Display a date and/or time. If
there is a date part, display it as a short date. If there is a time part,
display it as a long time. If present, both parts are displayed.
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| vbLongDate | 1 | Display a date using the long
date format specified in your computer's regional settings. |
| vbShortDate | 2 | Display a date using the short
date format specified in your computer's regional settings. |
| vbLongTime | 3 | Display a time using the time
format specified in your computer's regional settings. |
| vbShortTime | 4 | Display a time using the
24-hour format (hh:mm). |
If you are going to be storing a date or time
into a database that could have been obtained by a user submission you need to
use CDate Function will will convert it to data type. This was used in the
making of my calendar.
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<%
'Define
date.
MyDate = "January 15, 1982"
'Convert to Date data type.
MyShortDate =
CDate(MyDate)
'Define time.
MyTime = "4:35:47 PM"
'Convert
to Date data type
MyShortTime = CDate(MyTime) %> |
So now let's take what we learned and add this to our page.
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<html>
<head>
<title>My
First ASP Page</title>
</head>
<body
bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"
link="#003300" vlink="#006600"
alink="#689577">
<%
'Dimension
variables
Dim
MyVariable 'Comment on what this variable holds
<br><br>
<font face="Arial" size="2" color="#000000"><%= MyVariable
%><br><br> Server Date &
Time is: <%=
Now() %><br><br>
Server Time is:
<%= Time() %> <br><br>
Server Date is:
<%= Date() %><br><br> Current Hour is:
<%=
Hour(Now()) %><br><br> Current Minute
is: <%=
Minute(Now()) %><br><br> Current Second
is: <%=
Second(Now()) %><br><br> vbGeneralDate: <%=
FormatDateTime(Now(), 0) %><br><br> vbLongDate: <%=
FormatDateTime(Now(), 1) %><br><br> vbShortDate: <%=
FormatDateTime(Now(), 2) %><br><br> vbLongTime: <%=
FormatDateTime(Now(), 3) %><br><br> vbShortTime: <%=
FormatDateTime(Now(), 4) %><br><br> </font>
</body>
</html> |
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