06 Mar 10 Learning ASP Series -- Getting Your Hands Dirty With VBScript

I know some people don't like VBScript for being Microsoft-Centric, but it's very easy to get familiar with, and once you know how to create your ASP pages in VBScript, you can move on to any programming language of your choice.

First thing first: HTML tags and ASP scripts don't socialize well, and although it is not a politically correct agenda, you have to segregate them. Whenever you are writing the VBScript code for ASP, enclose the code within <% %>.

So if you want to initialize a VBScript variable, do it like this:

<% Dim name name = "Tutan Khamen" %>

For instance, if you want to use the variable "name" in your HTML (ASP, actually) page, all you have to do is:

<%@Language=VBScript%> <% Option Explicit %>