Help me understand?

[mcauliff]

What is this statement doing? I new to ASP.

ac = oelookups.execute.Get_AC(phone,country).return_value;


I'm assuming that it executes a program named oelookups and a function Get_AC with the parameters phone and country. The return value will be place in the ac variable.

I have put response.write statements in the oelookups program, but they are not displayed.

In searching, I have found that there are other copies of the oelookups programs in different folders on the web server.

How do I ensure that it is using the right program? From the folder that I want.

 

[Sheco]

1. The object stored in the variable named [tt]oelookups[/tt] has a public function or property named [tt]execute[/tt]

2. The [tt]execute[/tt] function or property returns an object.

3. The object returned in the previous step has a public function named [tt]Get_AC()[/tt] This function has two input arguments: [tt]phone[/tt] and [tt]country[/tt]

4. The [tt]Get_AC()[/tt] function returns either:
(1) an object with a public function/property named [tt]return_value[/tt] or
(2) a user-defined-type with an element named [tt]return_value[/tt]

5. The value of [tt]return_value[/tt] is stored in a variable named [tt]ac[/tt]




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If this is confusing, think about the way you read values from an ADO recordset object. Most of the time you just do something like:
[tt]myValue = rst("TheField")[/tt]

But you could also write it out the long way:
[tt]myValue = rst.Fields.Item("TheField").Value[/tt]

1. The recordset object stored in the variable named [tt]rst[/tt] has a public property named [tt]Fields[/tt]. This property happens to be the default property of all recordset objects.

2. The [tt]Fields[/tt] property returns an ADO Fields object.

3. The Fields object returned in the previous step has a public function named [tt]Item()[/tt] This function happens to be the default property of the Fields object. This function has one input argument: [tt]Index[/tt]. In this example we pass the value "TheField" for the Index input argument.

4. The [tt]Item()[/tt] function returns an ADO Field object. Every ADO Field object has a default property named [tt]Value[/tt]

5. The value of [tt]Value_value[/tt] is stored in a variable named [tt]myValue[/tt]