Beginners ASP

Session reference

This object is used to store information about, or alter settings for a user session. this is created for each visitor the first time they request an ASP page. This remains until the timeout expires .

Collection

Collections	Description
Contents	collection of variables and values that are stored in a particular Session object these are not specified by an <OBJECT> tag.
StaticObjects	collection of variables that are stored in a particular Session object using an <OBJECT> tag

Properties

Property	description
CodePage	defines the code page that is used to display content sent to the browser. This is the numeric value of different character sets. e.g 1252 is western alphabet and 1200 is universal alphabet
LCID	defines the locale identifier of the page sent to the browser . e.g UK is 0809 , US is 0409 and france is 040c
SessionID	returns the identifier of the session which is generated bt the server when a session is created
Timeout	defines the timeout for a Session object in minutes . Default is 20 minutes

Methods

Method	description
Contents.Remove	removes a named variable from the Contents collection
Contents.RemoveAll	removes all variables from the COntents collection
Abandon( )	ends the current user Session and destroys the current Session object

 

Events

Event	description
onStart	occurs when an ASP user session starts before the first page that a user requests is executed . Initialize variables , run code and create objects here
onEnd	occurs when a session ends . This is when the timeout elapses . All variables in the session are destroyed.