Using Cookies and Session ID's

[Raman Pahwa]

How to store username and password,cookie s

I want to create cookies in which the text written by anyone in textbox should be stored?

I have this code:-

 <% 
dim numvisits
response.cookies("NumVisits").Expires=date+365 
numvisits=request.cookies("NumVisits")
 
if numvisits="" then
response.cookies("NumVisits")=1
response.write("Welcome! This is the first time you are visiting this Web page.")
else
response.cookies("NumVisits")=numvisits+1
response.write("You have visited this ")
response.write("Web page " & numvisits)
if numvisits=1 then
response.write " time before!"
else
response.write " times before!"
end if
end if
%>

[DrBunchman]

Then all you need to do is put a textbox in a form with a submit button. Once it's submitted you can request the contents of the textbox and assign it to the cookie variable.

Hope this helps,

Dr B

[Raman Pahwa]

Then all you need to do is put a textbox in a form with a submit button. Once it's submitted you can request the contents of the textbox and assign it to the cookie variable.

Hope this helps,

Dr B

I have both in my form, textbox as well as submt button
Is this ok?

response.cookie s("a")=b

If ok, then where will be the cookie variable, in a or in b??

[DrBunchman]

Say you have the following in your html:

 
<form name="Form1" method="post" action="thispage.asp">
	  <input name="b" type="text" />
	  <input type="submit" />
</form>

Then you can use this to store the value typed into the text box as a cookie once the form is submitted:

 Response.Cookies("a") = Request.Form("b")

And you can retrieve the value of the cookie on a subsequent visit to the page using:

 c = Request.Cookies("a")

Does this make sense?

Dr B

[Raman Pahwa]

Dr B,

Thanx,It Works.

I also want u help in coding of session ID's. I want to create different id for every session opened by each user.

Could u Plz help me...?

[DrBunchman]

No problem.

A Session ID is automatically created at the beginning of a user's Session and can be retrieved with the following code snippet:

Dim sSessionID
sSessionID = Session.SessionID

Hope this helps.

Dr B

[Raman Pahwa]

Your code helped me a lot.But my last question to u------

And where could i see the Session Id??

Thanks Dr B

[DrBunchman]

What do you mean by where can you see it? You can retrieve it using the code above and do what you like with it, including writing it to the browser if required.

Have I misunderstood?

Dr B

[Raman Pahwa]

Thanks Dr B,

but one thing i want to ask, where could i check this session Id

[DrBunchman]

I don't understand what you mean by 'check' - check it against what?

[Raman Pahwa]

means where could i see that which session IDs is allotted to which session???

[DrBunchman]

Ah I see. I don't think that you can 'see' this information anywhere but you can create the facility to view the information yourself.

It depends what sort of information you want to store about each session. If it's just a list of session ID's then you can probably use an array but if you want to store other information about each users session then you might need to use a database.

Use the Session_OnStart and Session_OnEnd events in the Global.asa file to add and remove information from your session table.

Sub Session_OnStart ()
     Application.Lock
     ' Add some code here to store the relevant information somewhere.
     Application.UnLock
End Sub

Sub Session_OnEnd ()
     Application.Lock
     ' Add some code here to remove the information.
     Application.UnLock
End Sub

Hope this helps,

Dr B