Global.asa is a text file locate in your main directory (/global.asa).
Bellow is shown the basic extructure of a global.asa file.
| global.asa |
| <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript"
RUNAT="Server">
Sub Application_OnStart
........
End Sub
Sub Application_OnEnd
........
End Sub
Sub Session_OnStart
........
End Sub
Sub Session_OnEnd
........
End Sub
</SCRIPT> |
This file will be activated in this cases:
- When the first visitor accesses our pages
- When a new session starts.
In both cases, we may determine a
series of events to be execute in the file above.
- Application_OnStart
It is execute before the first session is started.
- Application_OnEnd
It is execute when the application is finished.
- Session_OnStart
It is execute when the server creates a new session
(when a new client acccesses our server).
- Session_OnEnd
It is execute when a session is abandon of after certain
period of time without contact between the client and the server (normaly
after 20 minutes or so from the last request from a specific client, the
server will consider he is not going to come back, so it will delete all the
information related to that session).
Lets try a very simple example:
Active Users
Counter
Just copy the code in the table to a text file and save it in the main
directory of your site ("/global.asa").
| global.asa |
|
| <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript"
RUNAT="Server">
Sub Application_OnStart
application("activevisitors")=0
End Sub
Sub Application_OnEnd
End Sub
Sub Session_OnStart
application.lock
application("activevisitors")=application("activevisitors")+1
application.unlock
End Sub
Sub Session_OnEnd
application.lock
application("activevisitors")=application("activevisitors")-1
application.unlock
End Sub
</SCRIPT> |
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The first time a visitor gets to our pages, global.asa will be executed, and
consequently, application("activevisitors") in line 4 will get a value
equal to "0". Immediately (as a new session has started), in line 12,
application("activevisitors") will be increased by one. Each time a new
visitor gets to our pages application("activevisitors") will be increased
by one, and identically, each time a session is finished, this parameter will be
reduce by one (line 18).
In case we want to show the number of visitors in our page, we must use this
kind of code :
| index.asp |
| There are <% =application("activevisitors") %> active visitors. |
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