I run a small website I developed for my old school, there are less then 

400 members and probably no more the 10 people on the site at anyone time. 

many of the users have requested that it would be a good idea to be able 

to see who else is currently on the site. 

Bearing in mind that when they sign in a cookie is set holding details 

like name email etc how would I go about retrieving a cookie opening a 

session for the duration that that user is on the site. 



I thought about using a global.asa with a timeout of three mintues or 

something of inactivity I have almost got there by using a string but it 

was suggested that I would be better off using arrays. 



This is the story so far: using the string method





Sub Application_OnStart





Session.Timeout = 1





Application.Lock

Application("name") = ""

Application.UnLock





End Sub





Sub Session_OnStart





Application.Lock

Application("name") = Application("name") & Session.SessionID & "," & 

Request.Cookies("Name")

Application.UnLock





End Sub





Sub Session_OnEnd



If InStr(Application("name"), Session.SessionID) > 0 Then 



Then basically find the starting point of the sessionID and the ending 

point of the name then do a replace changing the details for ""



End Sub









Then I thought of the array and version and thought I could do



x = 0 in the application_onstart  



then in the session_onstart have something like 



UserArray (x,0) = SessionID

UserArray (x,1) = First Name

UserArray (x,2) = Last Name

x = x + 1 





Then in the On_End



bFound = False 



for i = 0 to UBound(UserArray) 



if (UserArray(i) = Session.SessionID) then

UserArray(i) = UserArray(UBound(UserArray))

bFound = True

end if

next 



if (True = bFound) then redim preserve UserArray(UBound(UserArray) -1) 







I keep getting type mismatch errors on UserArray (x,0) = SessionID and I 

am sure I x is supposed to be an Application Variable



Any help on my syntax would be greatly appreciated



Thanks