Active Server Pages 3.0 from Scratch

Customizing mySpace

Now that the users are logged in, we are ready for them to start customizing their space. In this chapter, we are going to allow them to customize two items: myLinks and myNews. In both cases, they are going to choose a number of items from a list that we give them. In the case of myLinks, they also have the opportunity to add their own links.

The first thing that we need to do is create the database tables for this section. Let's look at myLinks first. We need two tables: one for the standard links that everyone gets, and one for custom links. Listing 5.18 shows the create scripts for these tables. For a review of creating tables in Access, see Chapter 4, "Database Access Using ASP."

Code Listing 5.18. mylinks: Create scripts ...