Who should download this script?

• You have a website and your offer your applications, products, trial software, etc. to people online.
• You would like to keep track of the people who are downloading your products
• The people who are learning ASP (Active Server Pages) can take study this code and learn various ASP functions.
• You can take a look at the code entering the information into the Access 97 Database.
• You can take a look at how the file is sent in an email by using the W3Jmail Component from www.dimac.net.
• You can learn basic form functionality with ASP.
• And so much more.

What does the script do?

The Register-A-Download script does the following:

1. Registers a new download and inserts the user info into an MS Access 97 database
   In orders to get the script to register every download and insert the information received from the user into the database you first need to point to the register.asp?reg=true&file-name-here.
   After that information is sent to the script, the script takes the querystring: register.asp?reg=true&file=file-name-here and processes it.
   So... the result is:
   reg=true   -  User needs to register (DEFAULT)
   file=file-name-here   - The file user wants to download.
   
2. User Registration (register.asp)
   After we pass the querystring: reg=true&file=file-name-here , the script displays the form fields in which the user information needs to be inserted and is requested. After the user enters his information, we have one more option here that we are offering to the user:
   An option which allows them to request the file by email.
   (The W3Jmail Component is requested to send the email and it is included in this file)
   
3. The Download Script (download.asp)
   Basically this page takes what was sent from the register.asp, it requests the file query then before it does any inserting it checks to see if the user wanted to receiver the file in an email. After it does that, it enters the user infrormation into the database and send out the email. If the users didn't want to receive the file in an email, then we display link to the file.

Installation instructions:

1. You may want to print this page to use as a reference when you are offline.
2. Download the file from aspdev.hypermart.net by clicking on the Register-A-Download at the top that page and following the instructions on the page.
3. After downloading the file, you will have to set-up a Data Source Name which can be done by doing the following:

   From the Start Menu select Settings then Control Panel in which you will look for the ODBC Datasources (32bit) icons then from the right select: Add, then select the Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb) option and then name it (the DSN) -> aspdev <- | select the location of the database.mdb (usually in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\download\) - After that go ahead and run the script. Just make sure that you are going to run the W3Jmail.exe application if you are going to use the email feature of this script.

Instructions for use:

Once you have gone through the installation process, simply try to use the application. Please make sure that you set-up the DSN correctly and that W3Jmail.exe was ran on your system.

Uninstallation instructions:

There is no Uninstall feature included with this download. All you have to do is simply remove, delete whatever the download folder located in C:\inetpub\wwwroot.

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