A simple example of dynamic content - the time.

This is an excellent example of how pages are generated dynamically by ASP. Look at the HTML source (use View/Source in Internet Explorer) and all that you'll see is the date as if the HTML was written that way.

And that's exactly what's happened in fact, but rather than me writing the HTML in my editor, my ASP page has.

Source code

Date.asp

<!--#include file = "include/Startup.asp"-->

<%
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// output relevant meta tags
Init( "Dynamic content - the time!" );

// output common top of page
Header( 'Dynamic content' );

// output page content
Content ( );

// output common bottom of page
Footer( );

// ============================================
// the content of this page
// ============================================
function Content ( )
{
   Out ( '<td valign="top" class="content">' );

      Out ( '<b>' + GetDate ( ) + '</b>' );

      Out ( '<p>This is an excellent example of how pages are generated dynamically by ASP. Look at the HTML source (use View/Source in Internet Explorer) and all that you\'ll see is the date as if the HTML was written that way.' );

      Out ( '<p>And that\'s exactly what\'s happened in fact, but rather than me writing the HTML in my editor, my ASP page has.' );
      
      Out ( '<p>You can see my actual ASP source code by clicking on the icon below.' );

      Out ( '<p><center><a href="ShowSource.asp?page=Date"><img src="images/source.gif" border=0></a></center>' );

      ShowBottomBanner()

   Out ( '</td>' );
   Out ( '<td background="images/gx/navgap.gif" valign="top">' );

      // show rotating banners
      ShowBanners ( 1 );

   Out ( '</td>' );
}

// ============================================
// returns a formatted string containing todays time and date
// ============================================
function GetDate ( )
{
   var dateToday = new Date();
   var sDays = new Array ( "Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday" );

   var sDate = 'Here in Atlanta it\'s ' + sDays[dateToday.getDay()] + ", ";

   // work out which suffix to append
   var nDate = dateToday.getDate();
   var nMod = nDate % 10;
   var sSuffix = "th";

   if ( nDate < 10 || nDate > 20 )
   {
      if ( nMod == 1 )
         sSuffix = "st";
      else if ( nMod == 2 )
         sSuffix = "nd";
      else if ( nMod == 3 )
         sSuffix = "rd";
   }

   // note: don't bother adding <SUP> to the suffix - it's too small
   sDate += nDate + sSuffix + " ";

   var sMonths = new Array ( "January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December" );

   sDate += sMonths[dateToday.getMonth()];

   // now the time..
   sDate += ' at ';

   if ( dateToday.getMinutes() < 7 )
      sDate += 'just after';
   else if ( dateToday.getMinutes() < 22 )
      sDate += 'quarter past';
   else if ( dateToday.getMinutes() < 37 )
      sDate += 'half past';
   else
   {
      dateToday.setHours ( dateToday.getHours () + 1 );

      if ( dateToday.getMinutes() < 52 )
         sDate += 'quarter to';
      else
         sDate += 'just before';
   }

   sDate += ' ';

   if ( dateToday.getHours ()  == 0 )
      sDate += 'midnight';
   else if ( dateToday.getHours () < 12 )
      sDate += dateToday.getHours () + ' in the morning';
   else if ( dateToday.getHours () == 12 )
      sDate += 'midday';
   else if ( dateToday.getHours () < 18 )
      sDate += (dateToday.getHours () - 12) + ' in the afternoon';
   else
      sDate += (dateToday.getHours () - 12) + ' at night';
   
   sDate += '. (ish)';

   return sDate;
}
%>

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