Application Variable in ASP

Report · May 28, 2006

Afternoon all, Would be grateful if you could confirm, or correct below - I know how to set a session variable in ASP, in the example below i'm trying to set EMPLOYERID to the value of 2

<%Session("EMPLOYERID") = "2"%>

This works fine - for twenty minutes then the session dies and all hell breaks lose, with this in mind, i believe that i need to use a Application Variable instead and therefore was wondering whether the below is the correct way of setting an application variable -

<%Application("Employer") = "2"%>

Thanks for your help

Report · May 28, 2006

Or you can change the timeout value of your session by adding

Session.Timeout = 60

to your code. Session value is in minutes so the above sets it to an hour.
.. and so on ..

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> Afternoon all, Would be grateful if you could confirm, or correct below -
> I
> know how to set a session variable in ASP, in the example below i'm trying
> to
> set EMPLOYERID to the value of 2
>
> <%Session("EMPLOYERID") = "2"%>
>
> This works fine - for twenty minutes then the session dies and all hell
> breaks
> lose, with this in mind, i believe that i need to use a Application
> Variable
> instead and therefore was wondering whether the below is the correct way
> of
> setting an application variable -
>
> <%Application("Employer") = "2"%>
>
> Thanks for your help
>

Report · May 28, 2006

If the session dies, you should redirect the user accordingly. eg

if Session("EmployerID")="" then Response.Redirect "login.asp"

You can't really use application variables, as they are the same for
everybody not individual users.

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