I need an ASP script (well, perhaps not the script itself, but a hint on how to do it) to count down the time to a certain limit then redirect the user to another page. If the user moves to another page before the limit expires, I need to be able to pass the time to another page...

The best thing I found was this http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/cut168.shtml - javascript . But it needs to adjustments: a) the time page expires must be triggered from a database, b) the remaining time must be put in a query string...

To be more clear and more specific: It is about a online exams script and I want to be able to set a time limit in which the user should finish - let's say, 30 mins. S0 this script should count down the remaining time and when the user is done to pass the value to the next page - where I do the marking - in a querystring. If the time expire, just redirect the user to a "we are sorry but you have failed page..."

yeah, but you fail to realize that ASP spits out the HTML to the client browser, and then it's done talking to the browser

so if they have 30 mins to do the exam, then set a session variable for when they start and compare it at the end and see if they passed or failed due to time

i wouldn't worry so much about redirecting them the moment that the time runs out. i would just worry about what to do if they submit the test after the time has run out.

KC, how could he submit the test if is redirected? Anyway, I have a solution, to use the Jscript for redirecting and leting the user know how much time he/she have and puting a cookie with the moment the test start and on the marks page, retrive that cookie and do a DateDiff to have the time user passed the exam.

The only problem to this solution is that the exam can not be passed by someone who hasn't JScript and cookies enabled. That's why I'm after an ASP solution.

zaboss wrote: KC, how could he submit the test if is redirected?

I wasn't saying use a redirect, i was just saying on the results page for the test: process the results if it's within the time limits, and display a message saying they failed or something if it's outside of the time limits.

Does the testee have to get all of the questions at once?

It would be trivial to start a session timer when the first question/group of questions is presented and on each successive page that's presented put "You have x minutes left to complete the exam"

dpyers, the testee would have all the questions at once. Perhaps I'll split it should there be let's say, more than 25 questions. And indeed, the timer should not start again on each page.

KC, in one of my previous post I have eplained that I think is rather depressing to get the "time's up" message after you fill in the test and submited it. And the problem is that this is a generic program, people could be using it for any kind of tests (psihological, professional, etc.) so some of them would not be failed/passed type. That's why the program only pass the final score to the people that generated the test and they would decide if 85 points means that a testee fails, pass, is a math genius, a suicidal type or a good father!

When you serve up the first page, set the javascript timer in the html, and a session timer in global.asa.

The javascript timer can send them to the "times up" page when it expires.

The code that does the corrections, can check the session timer.

Intermediate pages can also check the session timer and update the javascript timer if the two are out of synch (timers using different technologies on different platforms are +- to some degree).

Depending upon the length of the test, you may need to change the session timeout variable in global.asa as most hosts use the default of 20 minutes.