How can I make a variable static (or “global”) in Classic ASP?

Question

I want to make my variable static or \"global\" - so the same effect as static in .NET; every session that accesses it gets the same result, and if one session modifies it i

Answer 1

using a session variable

Session("myVariableName") = "my new value"

the scope will be the user...

if you want to wide the scope to ALL users that are in the website, then you use an Application variable

Application("myVariableName") = "my new value"

you can reset or handle this in the global.asa file as well

This is a common thing to do:

global.asa file:

default.asp file:

 
 
 
  
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