Demo
To begin using the demo follow the steps below:
Here is a List of steps to help you get started quickly. We have
included an example file: To get started first go to the
Welcome screen if you are not already there and test to see which
server type your Internet Service Provider uses. You
can use the tab marked "Host Test" to find out.
A few pages will be uploaded to your server and
will determine if your hosting service provides Active Server Pages
(ASP) or Hypertext Preprocess
Pages (PHP).
NOTE: This is only applicable
for ASP
generated pages. If you have the PHP version then please see below.
- Load the Welcome screen and copy the dogs project to a
destination on your local hard drive.
- From the Load Project Screen, open either the
dogs97.sss or dogs2000.sss file.
Click on it and then click NEXT.
- The sample database yields a list of dog breeds. The dogs97.sss
project uses the dogs97.mdb which is compatible with servers
that are configured to support Microsoft Office 97 Access
databases while the dogs2000.sss project uses the
dogs2000.mdb which is configured to support Microsoft
Office 2000 Access databases.
- Click NEXT to advance through the screens,
studying them to give yourself an idea of the steps that were
involved in creating this example.
- Once at the Generate Screen you
will generate the pages in the location where you loaded copied the
project so that the supporting images will work in relation to the
project.
- After you have generated the files you can then upload them to
the remote server, or browse them locally via IIS or Personal Web Server
(advanced users only).
PHP Version Only
- Load the Welcome screen and copy the dogs project to a
destination on your local hard drive.
- Using the "Load MySQL Data" tab on the welcome screen
locate the dogs.sql file that was copied over with
the project to the location you chose.
- Fill out the necessary server information in order to connect
to your MySQL database and then click on the "Load Dogs
Data" button and this will populate your MySQL database with
the project data.
- New in version 3.1.40 you no longer need a DSN to connect to
your MySQL database. Simply supply the following information on the
database screen:
- username
- password
- database name
- server name
- Advance to the Load screen and locate the dogsMySQL.sss
project file.
- When you click on the next button and are advanced to the
Database page then you will need to specify some information
specific to your database ie. username, password,database name, and
server name to connect to your database whether it is an IP address
or HTTP address. (This actually should be filled in already if you
have imported the data in step 3 above.
- When you click on next then if all of the information you
entered in step 7 is correct you will then be advanced to the
Fields screen as this will confirm that you have successfully
connected to your database. You will then see a list of the
available tables in your database.
- The dogs table should already have been selected so you will be
able to simply click through the project now and see how things
were done to get a feel for the screens in ASaP.
- Once you have reached the Generate page then choose a folder to
generate your files into and click on the Generate button.
- You will now need to upload your pages to your remote server.
You can do this from within ASaP and then finally go and see the
fruits of your labor.