newbie question 2

ok, i have reed the manual and i are having a hard time understanding it... i tryed some examples with sessions but neither one of them did work.... thats why i asked about sessions and cookies.... cause in asp u use sessions like this, Session("name") = "Steve" or Session("ANumber") = 12345 u dont have to declare them or anything... about the application, i dont know if u have been programming in asp..? in asp u have something called global.asa where u have your startcode with startcode i mean the code that exec when someone enters your site... in that global.asa u have something called application like this, Sub application_start() if application("number_of_peops_on_my_site") = <> then application("number_of_peops_on_my_site") = 1 else application("number_of_peops_on_my_site") = application("number_of_peops_on_my_site") + 1 end if end sub and then u have the opposit, the decreasing one... cause i cant think of an another way to keep track of the number of peops that are currently on my site... and since im not familiar with php i thought that it was something like the application to php to... how would u keep track of current number of peop on your site, and i dont mean a ordinary counter... cause in asp i would be able to do this: Number of peop on my site: <%= application("number_of_peops_on_my_site") %> regards pafo