Re: Preventing Multiple Log-Ins after Authentication

I forgot to mention that you can use Javascript to manage the open windows. We the user closes the main window, you can direct the empty window to log the user out and close its window as well. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Moore" <dmoore@ravens-nest.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net>; "Monty" <monty3@hotmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 3:22 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Preventing Multiple Log-Ins after Authentication > If you do not want to use cookes and use SID or trans SID; Another method is > to track your logins via a database. This can be resource intensive > though. You need to update the database upon each click or have an empty > window refresh every 1-5 minutes. If there is no activity for 15 or 30 > minutes automatically log the person off in the database. This requires a > process to run in cron or a separate background program. The advantage of > this is that is very easy to add time based accounting to the session > management system. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Monty" <monty3@hotmail.com> > To: <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 1:57 PM > Subject: [PHP] Preventing Multiple Log-Ins after Authentication > > > > Is there a standard method in PHP for preventing multiple people from > using > > the same log-in username/password simultaneously on a membership site? Any > > suggestions are greatly appreciated. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Monty > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >