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Dim adoNewsCon 'Database Connection Variable
Dim rsNewsConfiguration 'Holds the configuartion recordset
Dim strAdoNewsConfig 'Holds the Database driver and the path and name of the database
Dim strNewsSQL 'Holds the SQL query for the database
Dim intPreviewNewsItems 'Number of files shown on each page
Dim blnNewsLCode 'News page code set to true
Dim strNewsBgColour 'Holds the background colour of the News Administrator
Dim strNewsTextColour 'Holds the text colour of the News Administrator
Dim strNewsTextType 'Holds the font type of the News Administrator
Dim intNewsTextSize 'Holds the font size of the News Administrator
Dim intNewsSmallTextSize 'Holds the size of small fonts
Dim strNewsLinkColour 'Holds the link colour of the News Administrator
Dim strNewsTableColour 'Holds the table colour
Dim strNewsTableBorderColour 'Holds the table border colour
Dim strNewsTableTitleColour 'Holds the table title colour
Dim strNewsVisitedLinkColour 'Holds the visited link colour of the News Administrator
Dim strNewsActiveLinkColour 'Holds the active link colour of the News Administrator
'Create database connection
'Create a connection odject
Set adoNewsCon = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
'------------- If you are having problems with the script then try using a diffrent driver or DSN by editing the lines below --------------
'Database connection info and driver
strAdoNewsConfig = "DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)}; DBQ=" & Server.MapPath("news/news.mdb")
'Database driver info for Brinkster
'strAdoNewsConfig = "DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)}; DBQ=" & Server.MapPath("/USERNAME/db/news.mdb") 'This one is for Brinkster users place your Brinster username where you see USERNAME
'Alternative drivers faster than the basic one above
'strAdoNewsConfig = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.3.51; Data Source=" & Server.MapPath("news/news.mdb") 'This one is if you convert the database to Access 97
'strAdoNewsConfig = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=" & Server.MapPath("news/news.mdb") 'This one is for Access 2000/2002
'If you wish to use DSN then comment out the driver above and uncomment the line below (DSN is slower than the above drivers)
'strAdoNewsConfig = "DSN = DSN_NAME" 'Place the DSN where you see DSN_NAME
'---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
'Set an active connection to the Connection object
adoNewsCon.Open strAdoNewsConfig
'Read in the configuration for the script
'Intialise the ADO recordset object
Set rsNewsConfiguration = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
'Initialise the SQL variable with an SQL statement to get the configuration details from the database
strNewsSQL = "SELECT tblConfiguration.* From tblConfiguration;"
'Query the database
rsNewsConfiguration.Open strNewsSQL, strAdoNewsConfig
'If there is config deatils in the recordset then read them in
If NOT rsNewsConfiguration.EOF Then
'Read in the configuration details from the recordset
strNewsTextColour = rsNewsConfiguration("text_colour")
strNewsTextType = rsNewsConfiguration("text_type")
intNewsTextSize = CInt(rsNewsConfiguration("text_size"))
intNewsSmallTextSize = CInt(rsNewsConfiguration("small_text_size"))
strNewsTableColour = rsNewsConfiguration("table_colour")
strNewsTableBorderColour = rsNewsConfiguration("table_border_colour")
strNewsTableTitleColour = rsNewsConfiguration("table_title_colour")
strNewsLinkColour = rsNewsConfiguration("links_colour")
strNewsVisitedLinkColour = rsNewsConfiguration("visited_links_colour")
strNewsActiveLinkColour = rsNewsConfiguration("active_links_colour")
blnNewsLCode = CBool(rsNewsConfiguration("Code"))
intPreviewNewsItems = rsNewsConfiguration("No_of_preview_items")
End If
'Reset server object
rsNewsConfiguration.Close
Set rsNewsConfiguration = Nothing
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<%
Dim rsNews 'Database recordset holding the news items
Dim intNewsItems 'Loop counter for displaying the news items
'Create recorset object
Set rsNews = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
'Initalise the strNewsSQL variable with an SQL statement to query the database
strNewsSQL = "SELECT TOP " & intPreviewNewsItems & " tblNews.* FROM tblNews ORDER BY News_Date DESC;"
'Query the database
rsNews.Open strNewsSQL, adoNewsCon
'If there are no news item to display then display a message seying so
If rsNews.EOF Then Response.Write("Sorry, There is no Site News Items to display")
'Loop round to display each of the news items
For intNewsItems = 1 to intPreviewNewsItems
'Iv there are no records then exit for loop
If rsNews.EOF Then Exit For
%>
<%
'Move to the next record in the recordset
rsNews.MoveNext
Next
'Reset server objects
rsNews.Close
Set rsNews = Nothing
Set strAdoNewsConfig = Nothing
Set adoNewsCon = Nothing
%>