Advice for Directory Structure - ASP / Active Server Pages

David Freeman

Hi All!

I'm developing a website for a software company. They want to publish news,
tip/tricks and other articles on company's news section.

I would like to get advice on
- how to name the individual article files? (There will be 1000s of them)
- how to let the user query it? (i.e. news/index.asp?articleID=234544 or
what?)

I preffered a standard way to do all this. Pointer to any sample or tutorial
on this will be much appericated!!

David

Jul 19 '05 #1

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Manohar Kamath [MVP]

David,

I am not a big fan of file system... not very portable. Could you store the
articles in database, preferably in XML format (or simply in attributed
manner -- separate date, headline, etc.)? This way, you can change the looks
of the article without resorting to reformating the text/html.

From a virtual directory point of view, I think what you are doing seems to
be just fine.

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Manohar Kamath
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"David Freeman" <no*****@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:uN**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Hi All!

I'm developing a website for a software company. They want to publish news, tip/tricks and other articles on company's news section.

I would like to get advice on
- how to name the individual article files? (There will be 1000s of them)
- how to let the user query it? (i.e. news/index.asp?articleID=234544 or
what?)

I preffered a standard way to do all this. Pointer to any sample or tutorial on this will be much appericated!!

David

Jul 19 '05 #2

Roland Hall

"David Freeman" wrote in message
news:uN**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
: I'm developing a website for a software company. They want to publish
news,
: tip/tricks and other articles on company's news section.
:
: I would like to get advice on
: - how to name the individual article files? (There will be 1000s of them)
: - how to let the user query it? (i.e. news/index.asp?articleID=234544 or
: what?)
:
: I preffered a standard way to do all this. Pointer to any sample or
tutorial
: on this will be much appericated!!

Hi David...

You could use a database and a FSO to accomplish your goals. Use the
database to store specific information related to the files and text content
and files to store images with CSS templates used to format the data.

I'm sure there are numerous ways to accomplish what you want. IMHO,
assigning categories, as you would with a chart of accounts would be one
example for naming where characters in a filename represent a category.

Chart:
Category/Length:
Type: 1
SubType: 1
Article Number: 5

Types:
News: 1
Tip: 2
Other: 3

SubType:
Database: 1
Applications: 2
Support: 3

an ID of: 2101023 would be Article 1023 in the database tip area.

Your mileage will vary with your specific needs.

What I would not do is waste time using a category for data [current,
recent, archived] because you could just use a date column in your table and
use ranges when you query.

Current: 0-30 days
Recent: 31-90 days
Archived: 91+ days

If you use files to store your content then you can just test with
DateCreated, DateLastModified.

Aaron's site [aspfaq.com] appears to have what you're looking for. You
might want to see if he will provide you with some pointers to get you
going.

HTH...

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Jul 19 '05 #3

David Freeman

Hi All!

Thanks for all the input. I'm also looking around aspfaq.com for more
pointers.

Cheers
David

"David Freeman" <no*****@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:uN**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Hi All!

I'm developing a website for a software company. They want to publish news, tip/tricks and other articles on company's news section.

I would like to get advice on
- how to name the individual article files? (There will be 1000s of them)
- how to let the user query it? (i.e. news/index.asp?articleID=234544 or
what?)

I preffered a standard way to do all this. Pointer to any sample or tutorial on this will be much appericated!!

David

Jul 19 '05 #4

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