[Stealth]

I am writing a script that will have a feature for different languages, although onl 1 language will be used throughout the website. Is it better to populate each page load from a database or from variables in a file. My instinct tells me using a database is slower, but would it really grind things to a halt?

[my2cents]

You are on track - variables and DB will work. At system startup, read the database and load them into application variables. You can use the global.asa to do this. Expample included below.

This reads the database only once at system startup, after that they are in memory.

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=VBScript RUNAT=Server>

Sub Application_OnStart
Server.Execute "/loadlanguage.asp" ' Load language module.
End Sub

Sub Application_OnEnd
End Sub

Sub Session_OnStart
End Sub

Sub Sesson_OnEnd
End Sub

</SCRIPT>

[Stealth]

doh. see what happens when ure programmin so late :¬)
cheers nvr thought of that