JavaScript ASP Tutorial Tenth lesson--global asa_asp Foundation

Global.asa:

What is a Global.asa? It's a optional script file that holds certain "global" information which you can access through the entire ASP Appliciati On. The Global.asa is a plain text file saved with the. asa extension.

You are should only have one global.asa and it should go in your top level directory.

Below is a example Global.asa file. Don ' t try to understand the script just yet. We ' ll get to the specifics in the next two lessons.

<object runat=server scope=session id=myinfo progid= "MSWC. MyInfo ">
</OBJECT>

<script runat=" Server "language=" JavaScript ">
function Application_ OnStart ()
	{
	application ("somevariablename") = "Some value"
	}
function Application_OnEnd ()
	{
	Application.Contents.RemoveAll ()
	}
function Session_OnStart ()
	{
	session.timeout=15
	}
function Session_OnEnd ()
	{
	//do Nothing
	}
</SCRIPT>

<!--METADATA type= "typelib" 
file= "C:\Program Files\Common Files\ System\ado\msado15.dll " 
-->

List of Can do ' s:

There are four things can do with a global.asa.

1) Object Declarations
2) Application Events
3) Session Events
4) Library Reference.

I don ' t expect you understand any of that yet. Just Remember, there are only a few things we can does with the Global.asa. Let ' s move on to lesson 11.