Re: writing to the db on close

From: Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 14:37:38 +0000
Subject: Re: writing to the db on close
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Try the window.open method to popup a php page that does the desired job. <script> window.onunload=doRec function doRec() { window.open("writeToDB.php") } </script> and writeToDb.php <?php //...... ?><script>window.close() </script> -- Regards, Ns_Andy, ns_andy@yahoo.com "Edward Peloke" <epeloke@echoman.com> wrote in message news:NFBBIIKNALMFFNANEKEFMEACDGAA.epeloke@echoman.com... > Hello, > > I need a way to write a record to the db when the user closes their browser. > How can I do this? I looked last night at the onunload javascript event but > am not sure how that can trigger the php code to enter a row in the db. I > am using sessions so is there a way to write to the db when the session is > deleted? > > Thanks, > Eddie >

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