i was starting down that road. i actually created a variable in an asp page by itself and then included that page anywhere i need to access the variable. i am kinda new to the web world. i have always worked on client/server apps. so i am looking at different approaches. i am looking at session variables now, so i don't have to do the include. i am trying to see if i can create a global variable for every user, instead of creating a variable for each user, so i don't waste memory. is this possible?