Parent functions in Server.Execute

[GazMathias]

Anyone know of a way to allow server.executed pages to see functions in the calling parent (which themselves are #included)?

The only things I can think of are

a: To #include the functions in each server.executed page.
or
b: To read the file into a string, insert the #include functions line into the string, save the string as a temp file and server.execute the temp file.

I really don't want to do either of those.

I can not use #include instead of server.execute as the included page name is read from a db, and so must be dynamic.

Gaz

[jhardman]

@GazMathias
You're kind of pushing the edge of what classic ASP can accomplish, at times like this I tend to say "use a web service". Hope this helps.

Jared

[GazMathias]

You're kind of pushing the edge of what classic ASP can accomplish, at times like this I tend to say "use a web service". Hope this helps.

Thanks for that Jared.

I've kind of reached that eureka moment I guess every programmer does at some point when they realise that they keep rewriting the same code over and over again and so start to write libraries to do it for them (particularly with regard to database access and file / directory operations).

I simply wanted a way to make all of my libraries available to all of the pages in my site while being lazy and not have to update them all manually. I experimented with method b (which does work though obviously requires a redirect) but settled on method a for the simple reason that I had to update the pages to use the libraries anyway.

This site is now smaller, cleaner, faster and a heck of a lot easier to develop.

Gaz.

[atwork8]

I wrote this a while back and it has opened up Classic ASP for me in a whole new way. It will do what you are after:

Real Dynamic Includes With Classic ASP

Any problems just let me know

Reiss

[jhardman]

@atwork8
That's pretty cool! I wish I'd thought of that 5 years ago. Thanks for posting.

Jared