Numbered links to every page

[dinahdoey]

Hello again!

Is it possible in .ASP pages to create numbered links to every page created from the records bound to a recordset? I've seen that it can be done with ASP.NET but I'm already up for using .ASP it would be quicker for me if you could create a numbered page navigation bar in ASP.

At the moment, using Dreamweaver, I've created an automated recordset navigation status bar, which tells you which set of records you're looking at out of the total number of records but, obviously, this doesn't allow the user to navigate back to a specific page. The only navigation through my pages I have at the moment is the bog standard "previous", "next".

So can it be done? And if so, could anyone tell me how?

Cheers,

Gaynor

[D3mon]

How are you showing the records? by looping through the recordset?

[dinahdoey]

Errr - not sure about "looping" - the records displayed are bound to the recordset. I've set up the display of the records through the Dreamweaver dialogue boxes. The text is linked dynamically to the database fields and the region containing the dynamic fields is repeated 4 times on each page, (I think in code this is to do with offsetting?!) the number of pages created by the code depending on the number of records divided by 4.

I think this is what you mean by looping through thr recordset but I'm new to all this kind of stuff so I'm not sure!!

So the answer is yes, probably, maybe...

[D3mon]

Sorry, I don't know Dreamweaver-created ASP.

[Rob]

Dinahdoey.... the thing about Dreamweaver is that it does everything for you. Have you considered buying a book on how to code raw ASP from scratch in a text editor?

You'll never be able to say honestly 'I know ASP', or 'I know HTML' until you know how to do it without dreamweaver, as what happens when your dreamweaver code breaks? who will fix it? Will you know how?

You may find this thread useful:-
ASP Code Editors

[dinahdoey]

Well, I agree that it would be lovely to know asp inside out but I quite like to use Dreamweaver to generate code and then view it to see what's going on. I've learnt quite a lot about code that way, probably more quickly than sitting, reading a book and trying to write code from scratch and getting it wrong! At the moment, mainly due to personal circumstances rather than laziness, I just haven't got the time to learn all asp code inside out and I just want to learn the bits of code I need as and when.

So I get so far with my website...think, "actually, I wonder if you can do this?" and try and find out.

Hence asking the question "Is it possible to create a dynamically numbered page navigation bar in .ASP"?