ASP Question...referencing the same ASP page

[Tekk]

Ok my teacher is crap and he told us to create a page like this one:

http://hwang.cisdept.csupomona.edu/4.../mylibrary.asp

If you notice, by clicking on the add button, a table appears just below the title bar but the page is the same page just with the ?action=add at the end of the URL.

The dumb dumb teacher didn't really teach us how to do it unless you consider showing us the final product and not even the code learning. In any case, Im thinking that it has something to do with a conditional statement but Im not sure how to exactly implement it in the script. My basic thought process on it is

If action=add Then
.....show the table code here....
Else If action=view Then
.....show nothing for right now....
End If


Would it be a request to figure out if the action=add? IE request("action")=add Then.....

If you could give me a few pointers then that'd be great Dont want the whole thing answered for me outright or else I wouldn't learn anything! thanks a bunch.

[golfcart]

It sounds to me like you have the right idea.

action = request.querystring("action")
if action = "add" then
....show table code....
else
....show default page...
end if

I would only use "else if" if the page has some other dynamic function.

[Tekk]

is response.write(....code here....) the best bet for me to use? or would there be a more usable way of doing it.