I have a web page that has a web form for signing up. I want to remove fields. I've tried removing the field code from the .asp file but obviously there are other things that I need to remove along those lines. I have full access to all the code but I need help knowing where things are linked as far as making the form work again. Our programmer bailed.
A step by step guide would be great on this. thanks.
If they're just .ASP files, you should be fine removing the field tag, along with any references to it.
I.e. you'd delete this line:
<asp:TextBox id="text1" runat="server" />
and do a search for the 'id' attribute in the rest of the file (a find on 'text1' in this case), and remove those lines.
If everything to do with that for in in the same ASP page, it's easy. You can do a simple text search for the names and/or IDs of each form field. Sometimes they're referenced in a javascript block, so you'll have to comment-out some of the form validation code referencing those fields.
If they've used some dumb Dreamweaver script for all this - good luck!
If there are #include statements, or references to external JavaScript files it's more work - you'll have to trace through them as well, hoping they don't have their own included files as well.
After removing the input parts of the markup, if it is a .asp (assuming asp v3 instead of asp.net) it is also worth going through the <% %> tags part of the page to look for references to the removed inputs. If it's asp.net then check the vb.net / c# code in the script runat server block in the page, or look in the code behind file for references and recompile.