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I'm going to be creating a guest book and forum for this charity which means I'm doing it for virtually nothing. They want the forum and guest book to only be used by registered users and they only want the replies to be visible once it has been approved by them. I can code all of this myself in ASP but they want a user to be able to upload images as well to the post. Can I just just sound you all out about a couple of things before I start. Am I right to code this myself or does anyone know of any free ones to use that already do this?
If I do it myself does anyone have any experience of doing the images bit?
Cheers,
Suzy

oooh not so sure about the working for virtually nothing bit Suzy! You do it once, you'll end it doing it everytime. There's no reason to work for free for a charity (unless you're personally involved in it of course), they're businesses like all others. I've worked for a web agency who focus on working with charities - they've worked with some big names too. They're church mouse poor and can't pay me the money they've owed me for bloody ages.


As to your question - I've done it a few times in the dark distant past. And if I remember rightly with plain old ASP you can't do image (or any type of file) uploads without installing some third party software. That was one of the key reasons I dropped ASP classic years ago and moved to PHP. I've since stopped working with PHP too and gone to Flash work instead.... but that's by the by.

Here's one I think I've used before.. but OMG it costs $200 for one server licence!

aspupload.com/purchase.html


You build a couple of sites with ASP classic and you'll want to move onto another server language I swear! I hate going back to my old old ASP projects to fix em.

Here's one that's free:

websupergoo.com/support.htm

I've never used it though

// edit - I just googled for "asp file upload software" if you're not sure what to look for.

I have used asp to attach file attachments to emails which did have to upload the files first so I think I could possibly modify that but I just wondered if anyone had found any code that had it all packaged together. It was this freeaspupload.net/

Cheers for the help DBM. Yes the charity does have a kind of personal involvement which is why I agreed to slash my price.

ASP upload without 3rd party software is possible- asp101.com/articles/jacob/scriptupload.asp

It would be more worth your while to get hold of a free opensource forum.

Suz, its really really really time you move to ASP.NET!

Sorry I dont know anything that will do all this out-the-box.

LOL I know.
Next job I will do

yea, i had to finally get out of asp/vb. instead made the jump over to java/jsp.

Originally posted by: poliguin
yea, i had to finally get out of asp/vb. instead made the jump over to java/jsp.

My comiserations on that

Suzy - I am at my parents at the moment but if this can wait til Tuesday next week then drop me a PM, I think I can help you out here.

Also I back up what DBM said - charities are businesses, dont be guilted into into doing something for almost free because of their charitable status. If you want/need to do this at a low cost then invoice them at the normal cost and when they have paid make them a donation via your company. It is then tax deductible.

Originally posted by: jamiec

Originally posted by: poliguin
yea, i had to finally get out of asp/vb. instead made the jump over to java/jsp.

My comiserations on that

it's actually a bit of fun. there's some stuff that is .net, but all in all, fun getting into an environment that you have to prepare for a pretty heavy load (millions of hits a day).

Technomancer - I'm not starting it till next week so any help would be great, thanks