This article shows you how to use ASP and a Microsoft Access database to create a basic content rating system. It will look at how to setup the database to accept ratings, how to add ratings to the database, how to stop users from rating once they have already done so, and finally how to accumulate the ratings for each piece of content and display them in a graphical format.

The author notes, "In most web_based database application, webmasters are allowed to administrate their web sites throuth internet. In that way webmaster can maintain database or modify html pages anywhere. Many company's internet or intranet site has both back end (for adminstration) and front end (for site visitors). This artical is just quick example to display survey form on front end and update survey questions on back end." Full source code available for download.

This tutorial shows how to quickly create and track multiple-choice surveys using our XML-based Survey Server for IIS. It uses XML to store surveys, XSL to generate different presentations, and ASP to manage all the processing to create an extensible engine for creating multiple-choice surveys.