I was just wondering if anyone knew if you could post how many users are online or on your website at the time that you are...It usually says something like "Users Online:(Number)" Is this possible with ASP or do I need another code to do this??? Thank you!

Yes you can. What you need to look up is the 'application' object, this sits in a file called 'global.asa'. The global.asa must be named exactly this and sit in your web sites root.

This following link illustrates how to use (including code) the Application object to persist data across an ASP application. Items that are stored in the ASP intrinsic Application object are available to ALL ASP PAGES in the current application, as well as across ALL CURRENT SESSIONS.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...299683&SD=MSDN


Wind is your friend
Matt

OK...now, i have one of these files in another folder on the website that goes to a chat application...Is this going to interfere?

When you say one of those files
1.. is it called global.asa?
2.. is it in the web sites root dir where you want to put the 'visitor numbers' value?

I believe (99.9999% sure - perhaps someone else could jump in and confirm this) each web site can only have one global.asa file. If you have three web sites on your web server each needing a global.asa make each web site a virtual directory (IIS setting in the properties of each web site).

If the answer to Q 1 and 2 is yes, this is fine use the same file. A global.asa file can have as much functional code as you like, DB connections, hit counters, application counters, session timeout settings..... (do not attempt to write to a browser inside this file, it has no GUI)

HTH

Wind is your friend
Matt

as mat says, you can only have ONE global.asa file for EACH website, ie if you have multiple sites being hosted on the one machine (use IIS to check this) then each site can only access the ONE global.asa file. If you decide to go ahead with tracking user activity on ur site, please ensure that you do some reading up on GLOBAL.asa and the application object before jumping straight in.

Cheers



DJWright