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ASP The Global.asa file

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The Global.asa file

The Global.asa file is an optional file that can contain declarations of objects, variables, and methods that can be accessed by every page in an ASP application.

All valid browser scripts (JavaScript, VBScript, JScript, PerlScript, etc.) can be used within Global.asa.

The Global.asa file can contain only the following:

Note: The Global.asa file must be stored in the root directory of the ASP application, and each application can only have one Global.asa file.

Events in Global.asa

In Global.asa you can tell the application and session objects what to do when the application/session starts and what to do when the application/session ends. The code for this is placed in event handlers. The Global.asa file can contain four types of events:

Application_OnStart - Occurs when the FIRST user calls the first page in an ASP application. This event occurs after the Web server is restarted or after the Global.asa file is edited. The "Session_OnStart" event occurs immediately after this event.

Session_OnStart - This event occurs EVERY time a NEW user requests his or her first page in the ASP application.

Session_OnEnd - This event occurs EVERY time a user ends a session. A user-session ends after a page has not been requested by the user for a specified time (by default this is 20 minutes).

Application_OnEnd - This event occurs after the LAST user has ended the session. Typically, this event occurs when a Web server stops. This procedure is used to clean up settings after the Application stops, like delete records or write information to text files.

A Global.asa file could look something like this:

<script language="vbscript" runat="server">

sub Application_OnStart
'some code
end sub

sub Application_OnEnd
'some code
end sub

sub Session_OnStart
'some code
end sub

sub Session_OnEnd
'some code
end sub

</script>

Note: Because we cannot use the ASP script delimiters (<% and %>) to insert scripts in the Global.asa file, we put subroutines inside an HTML <script> element.

<object> Declarations

It is possible to create objects with session or application scope in Global.asa by using the <object> tag.

Note: The <object> tag should be outside the <script> tag!

Syntax

<object runat="server" scope="scope" id="id" {progid="progID"|classid="classID"}>
....
</object>

Parameter Description
scope Sets the scope of the object (either Session or Application)
id Specifies a unique id for the object
ProgID An id associated with a class id. The format for ProgID is [Vendor.]Component[.Version]

Either ProgID or ClassID must be specified.
ClassID Specifies a unique id for a COM class object.

Either ProgID or ClassID must be specified.

Examples

The first example creates an object of session scope named "MyAd" by using the ProgID parameter:

<object runat="server" scope="session" id="MyAd" progid="MSWC.AdRotator">
</object>

The second example creates an object of application scope named "MyConnection" by using the ClassID parameter:

<object runat="server" scope="application" id="MyConnection"
classid="Clsid:8AD3067A-B3FC-11CF-A560-00A0C9081C21">
</object>

The objects declared in the Global.asa file can be used by any script in the application:

GLOBAL.ASA:

<object runat="server" scope="session" id="MyAd" progid="MSWC.AdRotator">
</object>

You could reference the object "MyAd" from any page in the ASP application:

SOME .ASP FILE:

<%=MyAd.GetAdvertisement("/banners/adrot.txt")%>

TypeLibrary Declarations

A TypeLibrary is a container for the contents of a DLL file corresponding to a COM object. By including a call to the TypeLibrary in the Global.asa file, the constants of the COM object can be accessed, and errors can be better reported by the ASP code. If your Web application relies on COM objects that have declared data types in type libraries, you can declare the type libraries in Global.asa.

Syntax

<!--METADATA TYPE="TypeLib"
file="filename" uuid="id" version="number" lcid="localeid"
-->

Parameter Description
file Specifies an absolute path to a type library.

Either the file parameter or the uuid parameter is required
uuid Specifies a unique identifier for the type library.

Either the file parameter or the uuid parameter is required
version Optional. Used for selecting version. If the requested version is not found, then the most recent version is used
lcid Optional. The locale identifier to be used for the type library

Error Values

The server can return one of the following error messages:

Error Code Description
ASP 0222 Invalid type library specification
ASP 0223 Type library not found
ASP 0224 Type library cannot be loaded
ASP 0225 Type library cannot be wrapped

Note: METADATA tags can appear anywhere in the Global.asa file (both inside and outside <script> tags). However, it is recommended that METADATA tags appear near the top of the Global.asa file.

Restrictions

Restrictions on what you can include in the Global.asa file:

How to use the Subroutines

Global.asa is often used to initialize variables. 

The example below shows how to detect the exact time a visitor first arrives on a Web site. The time is stored in a Session variable named "started", and the value of the "started" variable can be accessed from any ASP page in the application:

<script language="vbscript" runat="server">
sub Session_OnStart
Session("started")=now()
end sub
</script>

Global.asa can also be used to control page access.

The example below shows how to redirect every new visitor to another page, in this case to a page called "newpage.asp":

<script language="vbscript" runat="server">
sub Session_OnStart
Response.Redirect("newpage.asp")
end sub
</script>

And you can include functions in the Global.asa file.

In the example below the Application_OnStart subroutine occurs when the Web server starts. Then the Application_OnStart subroutine calls another subroutine named "getcustomers". The "getcustomers" subroutine opens a database and retrieves a record set from the "customers" table. The record set is assigned to an array, where it can be accessed from any ASP page without querying the database:

<script language="vbscript" runat="server">

sub Application_OnStart
getcustomers
end sub

sub getcustomers
set conn=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
conn.Provider="Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0"
conn.Open "c:/webdata/northwind.mdb"
set rs=conn.execute("select name from customers")
Application("customers")=rs.GetRows
rs.Close
conn.Close
end sub

</script>

Global.asa Example

In this example we will create a Global.asa file that counts the number of current visitors.

The Global.asa file:

<script language="vbscript" runat="server">

Sub Application_OnStart
Application("visitors")=0
End Sub

Sub Session_OnStart
Application.Lock
Application("visitors")=Application("visitors")+1
Application.UnLock
End Sub

Sub Session_OnEnd
Application.Lock
Application("visitors")=Application("visitors")-1
Application.UnLock
End Sub

</script>

To display the number of current visitors in an ASP file:

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<p>There are <%response.write(Application("visitors"))%> online now!</p>
</body>
</html>

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