Re: log out

if you are tracking the sessions by a unique value, say their username, then check if the session is still alive each they log in... otherwise, start a new one. but the trick is the unique value... deco wrote: > > Well, i'm having some trouble in here and i hope someone can help me... > > I'm using sessions to keep track of users on my website... Using this, > i'm able to display the name of the users that are currently online... > Here's the thing... When users get on the site a new session is opened > and they get on the online list... For the logging out, i have a log out > button that to the moment very few people have used... I've been looking for > some kind of event that may be triggered when a session expires, so that i > could change it and do what i need when a user logs out. Unfortunately i > have not found anything like this. > > The way i found to do this was to have people visiting the site doing > this job for me. Every time a page is requested it checks the time of the > last page hit from every online user and if the difference to the current > time is more than some default i specify, it puts it as offline. Another way > was to have cron do this for me... > > But i still wonder if it's possible to have php sessions do this for me, > as some kind of mechanism must exists for the session expires... > -- Leo G. Divinagracia III ldivinag@csuhayward.edu