How do I use only one page but have different text or content load depending on which link was used to access the page. If I have a 3 useres accessing the page(member, guest, admin) can I custom the content without making 3 pages. I don't know where to start and I want to use as much asp as possible instead of taking the easy way out with html. There is going to be a login so I guess maybe I can use the variable from the login for the page, ie: (Guest,Member,Admin)

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\"Don\'t follow someone who\'s not going anywhere\" John Mason

You most certainly could use the login value. Once you have that saved somewhere (the session?) then you could use that to determine the output on one page.

Here's a quick and dirty example:

<%Select Case Session("userType")
    Case 1%>
        This is the content for a guest
    <%Case 2%>
        This is the content for a member
    <%Case 3%>
        This is the content for an admin
<%End Select%>

Peter
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Work smarter, not harder.

<%
dim objConn
set objConn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
objConn.Open "Library"


'if Session("bValidUser") = True and Session("UserID") = "" then
'dim rsPersonIDCheck
'set rsPersonIDCheck = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
'dim strSQL
'strSQL = "SELECT User_ID FROM Users WHERE E_Mail = '" & Session("E_Mail") & "';"
'rsPersonIDCheck.Open strSQL, objConn
'if rsPersonIDCheck.EOF then
'Session("bValidUser") = False
'else
'Session("UserID") = rsPersonIDCheck("UserID")
'end if
'rsPersonIDCheck.Close
'end if
%>

If I use this to log in, is it the ("bVaildUser") that holds the value and is that what I would use in the select case?
I can't tell where it would return if it was a Member or an Admin.

Let's do it this way instead!
A normal link
<a href="main.asp">Main Page</a>

How do I assign that link a variable to use in the select case and link in to another page. Would the include file hold the variable, in this case say it was called "main". Then on the main.asp page it would look like this?
<%Select Case Session("userType")
    Main%>
Content
<%End select%>

What goes in the userType field??

Thanks

If you plan on showing content based on the user type, then you'll need to store some user type with your user. you should add something like a "UserType" field to your user table. Then when you login the user by validating their username and password in from the table, you can retrieve the user type.

SELECT User_ID, UserType FROM ...

Then you can set that value to the session:

Session("UserType") = rsPersonIDCheck("UserType")

Then you can display the content with the select case I suggested (after changing the case test values to the right ones for you scenario).

Peter
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Work smarter, not harder.

Thanks :)