Content expiration from web page

Question

Hi, all - Dreamweaver 8.0.2, Win XP, using asp, vbscript, and
SQL database (and utilizing WebAssist's Super Suite).
I'm going to be developing a "clients only" area with asp
pages connecting to a SQL database. As part of the project, I need
to develop an administration area where our technical writing staff
can add documents to the site (via an upload/web form) with a field
on the form that lets them enter the date they want the content to
expire. 'Expire' meaning the link to a particular file (this could
be old release notes, product bulletins, etc.).no longer show up on
the web page to the client once a given date is reached.
I'm only assuming that you would enter the expiration date in
a column in the database table and then run a query that compares
the column date to today's date and if the comparison yields some
value, then the link is either displayed or it's not. Would that be
fair logic?
I'm really not sure how to approach this - is this something
that can be written in asp code or would this be more of a server
function? If anyone has ever done this, I would be very grateful
for any suggestions or 'best methods' in which to achieve this.
Thank you.
John

Answer 1

On 18 Mar 2007 in macromedia.dreamweaver.appdev,
BurritoVictim wrote:
> I'm only assuming that you would enter the expiration
date in a
> column in the database table and then run a query that
compares the
> column date to today's date and if the comparison yields
some value,
> then the link is either displayed or it's not. Would
that be fair
> logic?
That would be fair logic.
> I'm really not sure how to approach this - is this
something that
> can be written in asp code or would this be more of a
server
> function ?
You'd write it in the SQL for the query:
SELECT field1, field2 FROM myTable WHERE expirationDate >
GETDATE()
The GETDATE() function assumes that you're using Microsoft
SQL Server;
you specified only "SQL", and that's the query language that
almost all
databases use.
Joe Makowiec
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