Administration Area
This release was done by jeremy@gexweb.net.
I'm sure that ASP101 will make no warranties to it's usefulness or stability.
Please email Jeremy with any questions or concerns.
This code acts as an online Admin area to assist in modifying the Forums database. Most of it is just a parallel to the original code with a few extra things. With it you can: add forums, delete forums, modify name, description and grouping of forums, modify messages and delete messages. Everything you ever wanted, right?
Security = Not very good. It is good enough for a small forum on an intranet, or personal website, but if you want to use it for ebay.com or something, you may want to upgrade it's security. It uses cookies, no session variables or anything. You basically put in your name and if your name is one of the names listed it will let you view the page, otherwise it will kick you back to the login page. The location of the validation subroutine is at the bottom of admin_common.asp. Currently the accepted names are: John Doe and Guest Guest. If you don't tell anyone about the admin area they will never know, since there aren't links to it on the regular forums page.
Just like the ASP 101 forum code, this code is pretty much plug and play. I was using an Access database and using the connection string:
"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" & SERVER.MapPath("database/forum.mdb") & ";"
So, if this won't work for you, make sure and change it.
I'm sure you'll find bugs, I wrote it all on Notepad. Bad syntax and all that, but it works. Please send feedback (good and bad). Thank you.
| Filename | Description |
| administration.asp | the homesite for the Admin area |
| login.asp | Start here to place the "security" cookie |
| login_process.asp | places "security" and redirects to administration.asp |
| logout.asp | removes "security" cookie |
| add_forum.asp | If you want forums with 50 different subjects, this will help! |
| delete_forum.asp | Deletes a forum, accessible through admin_display_forum.asp has a verify thing too. So you don't accidentally delete. |
| update.asp | Change name, description and grouping of forum |
| admin_save_cookie.asp | same as original, just admin version |
| admin_save_cookie_response.asp | ditto |
| admin_display_forum.asp | This has the delete forum feature added |
| admin_display_message.asp | This has the delete message, and modify message features |
| admin_post_message.asp | Same as original, just admin version |
| delete_message.asp | Deletes message, accessible through admin_display_message.asp |
| modify_message.asp | Change the message text |
| ./includes/admin_common.asp | Has Validate subroutines, and some other stuff. |
| ./includes/admin_config.asp | Another mirror, has Admin Table that you'll see on all the admin pages |
| ./includes/mini-adovbs.inc | I added two constants to help with deleting messages and forums |