Abandon session using button

[yasuru]

How can I abandon session and reset form values Using a button. thanks

[PeOfEo]

session("var")= "" or session.abandon. Just fire it on button click.

[yasuru]

Thanks for instant reply, I'll be greatful to you if you help me with the code, I mean how to put this in <input> tag. Thanks again.

[PeOfEo]

You do not put it in an input tag. I really can't help you with the code for asp classic because I do not use asp classic, I use asp.net. I can phsudo code it for you, I could probably give you some vbscript that would work, but I do not want to be giving people code to stuff when it is not my area because there is a pretty good chance it will not work.

[buntine]

Mate, ASP is a server-side language, you cannot abandon a session with the click of a button.

What you can do; have the button submit to a page on the server. That page will abandon the session.

<form action="abandonSession.asp" method="get">
<input type="submit" name="btnSubmit" value="Abandon Session" />
</form>


Regards,
Andrew Buntine.

[PeOfEo]

Originally posted by buntine
Mate, ASP is a server-side language, you cannot abandon a session with the click of a button.

What you can do; have the button submit to a page on the server. That page will abandon the session.

<form action="abandonSession.asp" method="get">
<input type="submit" name="btnSubmit" value="Abandon Session" />
</form>


Regards,
Andrew Buntine. If you put that submit button on the same page though and it resends it you are abandoning the session when the user clicks the button. In asp.net I use event drivne controls, but that is basically what they are doing. I did not know you could not specify events in asp classic though....

[buntine]

No, the session cannot be abandoned from the clients machine. It only exists on the server.

[PeOfEo]

Originally posted by buntine
No, the session cannot be abandoned from the clients machine. It only exists on the server. I know that. But you are still clicking a button and killing the session... it resends it back to the server. If I click the submit button on this form it is still adding the form contents to the data base, it just resends the data to the server first. I did not say it was using a client side onclick event handler.

[buntine]

So what are you disagreeing about?? What i said to him was he must first invoke the code from the server before a session can be deleted.

What is it about that which you dont agree with?

[PeOfEo]

I was wondering if you could use an event in vb, like sub btn_click(sender as object bla bla bla bla)... and it would send the stuff back to the server on click of the button. I am not sure if you can do it in classic or not....

[buntine]

No no. ASP isnt a fully-fledged programming language. Its just a collection of objects, hence the reason it can be written in any language.

The basic idea behind it is similar to that of ActiveX back in the late 90s..

Regards.

[PeOfEo]

so it does not have any of the event driven capabilites of its successor then.

[buntine]

No, not really.

The only real event invokation is done from the global.asa file in the form of Session_OnStart, etc, etc.

Infact, ASP and ASP.NET are completely different -- of coarse, syntax-wise, they are similar..

Regards.

[laue]

<form action="stop_session.asp">
<input type="submit" value="end session" name="end session"></input>
</form>

in stop_session.asp:

<%
Session.Abandon
%>

Why do y'all think that wouldn't work??

[buntine]

It does work... We have already given him that code.