Displaying Session Variables on web page

[robert swanson]

I want to display session variables on a page similar to the welcome on the forum. I have an html line

Welcome: &nbsp;<%a5 ? session.BECKDB.user_name %>

Although I can't find any reference to it the ? seems to be a print command but in this case it doesn't work. The "Welcome " shows up but not the session variable.

[Lenny Forziati]

Yes, the "?" is the output operator. Are you sure your variable holds a value?

I want to display session variables on a page similar to the welcome on the forum. I have an html line

Welcome: &nbsp;<%a5 ? session.BECKDB.user_name %>

Although I can't find any reference to it the ? seems to be a print command but in this case it doesn't work. The "Welcome " shows up but not the session variable.

[robert swanson]

Hi Lenny
the following is set in the top of the index.htm after checking to see if they are logged in
<%a5
session.BECKDB.UserName = "Guest"
session.BECKDB.password = "guest"
session.BECKDB.country=request.Accept_language
session.BECKDB.last_here=date()
&>

The code in the first message is in the body of the same page.
I also tried to add the sample shown on the A5w_info() reference and got the message "A5w_info is shown below" but there is nothing after it.

Adding the sample to the bottom of my page also screwed up the editing of the page. The page would preveiw OK but if I opened the page for editing I got what appears to be a new page and a blank WYSIWYG page. Close the edit and use open with note pad and all the code is there. Remove the sample and everything is back to normal.

[Lenny Forziati]

Does your page really have the .htm extension or is it a .a5w extension? It must be .a5w (unless you've changed from the default configuration) in order for the Xbasic code to be executed.

Hi Lenny
the following is set in the top of the index.htm after checking to see if they are logged in
<%a5
session.BECKDB.UserName = "Guest"
session.BECKDB.password = "guest"
session.BECKDB.country=request.Accept_language
session.BECKDB.last_here=date()
&>

The code in the first message is in the body of the same page.
I also tried to add the sample shown on the A5w_info() reference and got the message "A5w_info is shown below" but there is nothing after it.

Adding the sample to the bottom of my page also screwed up the editing of the page. The page would preveiw OK but if I opened the page for editing I got what appears to be a new page and a blank WYSIWYG page. Close the edit and use open with note pad and all the code is there. Remove the sample and everything is back to normal.

[AaronBBrown]

<%a5
session.BECKDB.UserName = "Guest"
session.BECKDB.password = "guest"
session.BECKDB.country=request.Accept_language
session.BECKDB.last_here=date()
[b]&>[/b]

Please make sure that your closing delimiter is %>, not &> as you typed above.

[robert swanson]

Sorry Aaron that was a typo in the message.

I've got it working however under normal conditions when you enter a site you get INDEX.HTML. Will INDEX.A5W do the same job?

Also can I generate an HTML page and rename it to A5W?. I'm using an external program to develop some of the pages that don't have web components on them but I would like to have the same header on every page and the header displays session variables.

Thanks for the help so far.

[AaronBBrown]

With the Web Application Server, index.a5w will be displayed if it is present. WAS will not process the a5w code if the file is named .html or .htm. It must be .a5w if there is xbasic in it. This is true of all server-side scripting languages, such as a5w or PHP.

You can generate an HTML page and rename it a5w if you like. Without the <%a5 %> tags, everything is treated just like html.

Sorry Aaron that was a typo in the message.

I've got it working however under normal conditions when you enter a site you get INDEX.HTML. Will INDEX.A5W do the same job?

Also can I generate an HTML page and rename it to A5W?. I'm using an external program to develop some of the pages that don't have web components on them but I would like to have the same header on every page and the header displays session variables.

Thanks for the help so far.