Umm, i am not sure what you mean. In html if you want to have an Image Submit button you would do something like

<INPUT TYPE="image" SRC="images/submit.gif" HEIGHT="30" WIDTH="173" BORDER="0" ALT="Submit Form">
which would post your form the same way an INPUT TYPE="submit" would.

I am unfamiliar with using flash buttons but if you have an swf file that is animated or something, you could surround your OBJECT tag with an HREF and have the onClick event trigger form.submit();

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i see, i was looking at flash but there is alot of junk code. i am going to look at a simple html submit

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as far as im aware (Imar may correct me) the code you are referring to is the object code dreamweaver makes for embedding its included choices of flash buttons. You can only link pages with these buttons, so to use that flash button you would have to link to a page that has your session abandon and redirect in it. Or create your own button in flah instead of using dreamweaver's buitl ins.

ok, still got problems!

i thought that i could create a simple <A href> which goes the home.asp and then at the top of the home.asp i put:

<%
Session.Abandon()
%>

thus when you click on the link and get redirected, the session is stopped....

it didnt work out like that, i can still access my protected page without re-logging in. i thought i would start simple and just have a link and set the above code but it didnt like that.

any ideas why that wouldnt work?

Consider this script:
home.asp:
Session("name")="Doug"
Session.Abandon
Response.Write(Session("name"))

The output here will be Doug even though you have called Session.Abandon the reason is that the session object is NOT deleted until ALL of the scripts in the current page have been executed. So, that means that you can call any session values on the page you call Session.Abandon but, after that, the session variables are then gone.

So given the above script when I navigate to this script:
Page2
<%
Response.Write(Session("name"))
%>

My output will be blank.

My guess is that on home.asp you are recreating a session after you have called session.abandon what I would suggest is that your href link to a page called logout.asp and the script of that page shoudl be:

<%
Session.Abandon()
Response.Redirect("home.asp")
%>


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i tried the logout.asp method and to no avail. The only thing i have in my global.asa is under session_OnStart where i have Session("authenticated")=0

should i have another line of code for session_OnEnd?

could i set in session_OnEnd either:

session("authenticated") = 0

or

session("authenticated") = session("authenticated") -1 ????

would either work as i have read that when i do Session.Abandon it looks in global.asa and if i have nothing declared in session_onend then it will do nothing and not drop the session

am i down the right line?

By calling Session.Abandon() you are implicitly calling Session_OnEnd so, when Session.Abandon() is called, all code in the Session_OnEnd method will be fired as well.

Reference:
http://www.asp101.com/resources/active_users.asp
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms972338.aspx

I assume that a value of 0 for authenticated means the user is logged in so you may want to place code to set the session value back to 0.

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ok, when logged in, session("authenticated") = 1, session_onstart is set to session("authenticated") = 0 when the user starts a session.

i will go with this:

Sub Session_OnEnd
session("authenticated") = 0
End Sub

fingers crossed......

Something you may want to try is, after you have been redirected from logout.asp to home.asp you may want to try writing the value of Session("authenticated") to the screen.

After leaving logout.asp (and provided you have no code in your Session_OnEnd) doing Response.write(Session("authenticated")) should return no value (an empty string)

This can at least tell you what your session values are.

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