[Web Programming] ASP based form with image upload. Tips?

ben_bot

I am building a website for a friend and its just about done. The only thing left to do is build a form that uploads a picture from the users computer and puts it either in an email, or sends an email with a link to the picture.

The problem is, I'm using ASP to do it. I could probably rebuild the site in PHP, but it's almost done and frankly I didn't think I'd have so much trouble finding a tutorial on Google.

So I come to you all for help!

Could someone point me to a free-ish source that would detail how to build a ASP form to upload an image to an email and then send it?

Jasconius

Honestly I'm not sure you can do it in the time it would take you to do it on something more sophisticated. You have to understand that ASP is old as dirt.

There are two probably options.

1) Find some sort of ASP mail component that supports image attachments. This will almost certainly cost money. Jmail supports file attachments. I do not know how much it costs, if it isn't free still.

2) Save the file to the server and send a link, which is kind of dumb, and I couldn't even tell you how to do it in classic ASP.





The third option is not to use ASP because it is awful and forsaken.

Ganluan

When you say ASP, you probably mean ASP .NET, right? If not, that makes it more difficult...

ben_bot

It's a classic ASP site currently. My host (1and1.com) does not have ASP.NET support with my current package although I could upgrade.

I know it's tough, which is why I came here. After searching their FAQs a bit more i found this FileUp software that they run apparently, I guess I could try using that. But I basically know nothing of ASP outside of include files so I'm just groping in the dark hoping the magic happens.

I'll look into JMail too. It looks like they have a free version available, although I'm not sure of its capabilities.

aperlscript

Looks like w3schools has some tips:

http://www.w3schools.com/asp/asp_send_email.asp

Jasconius

ben_bot wrote: »

It's a classic ASP site currently. My host (1and1.com) does not have ASP.NET support with my current package although I could upgrade.

I know it's tough, which is why I came here. After searching their FAQs a bit more i found this FileUp software that they run apparently, I guess I could try using that. But I basically know nothing of ASP outside of include files so I'm just groping in the dark hoping the magic happens.

I'll look into JMail too. It looks like they have a free version available, although I'm not sure of its capabilities.

DO. NOT. GET. 1and1 .NET hosting. Unless they've radically overhauled it in the past couple of years, it's the worst piece of shit in the universe.

Godaddy has decent .NET hosting at the low end... but really, .NET tends to cater towards mid-scale/enterprise applications so most cheap-hosts don't even bother, so your options are limited.