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Old February 28th, 2007, 11:01 AM
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i am trying to create a logout button, DreamWeaver created alot of messy code so i thought i would give it a bash.
i couldnt find much help through google so i came here. When people login, a session is started in a global.asa file i created and i have working authentication but i want to create a logout button that ends the session and redirects.
any ideas?
i know some of the code i want to end the session ie:

session("authenticate") = 0
response.redirect("page.html")

 
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Use Session.Abandon()

WARNING - this will drop ALL session variables for the current session.
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right, so if i create a button and use that with a redirect that would be ok?

 
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ps - what does dropping all session variables mean? what would be affected by this?

 
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Yes, if you call Session.Abandon() and redirect the user, the will be logged out. This ONLY applies if you are using session variables to determine if a user is logged in if, however, you are using cookies you will need to write code that will terminate the cookie as Session.Abandon() has no effect on them.

What I mean by dropping all session variables is that once you call Session.Abandon() and session variable that you may have created for the current user will be gone.

Think of an entire session as an array and everytime you create a Session Variable, you add a dimension to that array that holds some information. When you call Session.Abandon() our hypothectical array will have all of its dimensions removed thus any session data associated with the current session is deleted.

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thanks

as it stands i have a global.asa file with a session.timeout, session("authenticated") and session ("Start") = now

when the user logs in, session authenticated = 1 and all the protected pages checks this and should it = 0 then the user is redirected to the login page again.

i havent used cookies (knowingly) as i am still learning about what they do and i felt it was something i shouldnt mess with until i have grasped all the basics.

im guessing with what i told you about the global.asa file that i am using session variables only and so therefore session.abandon should work. is there no other code i require for a button then? the session and the redirect will suffice? will response.redirect work or do i want to look at java redirects?
 
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Session.Abandon() will work in this instance and yes, a regular response.redirect will work.

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thanks for that

 
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Sure, no problem. ^^

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to add to this, i made a flash button which dreamweaver hashes up and creates a shed load of code for!! is there a simpler way to create a button as i am realising more and more the amount of code DW creates!

i searched google but most of it seemed junk, doesnt physically describe the code, what code would i look to write it in and i will research myself.






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