Re: Sessions question

This is one of those rare things in programming that can only be done one way. Absolutely the only way to kill the session when a user leaves your site is to go through a script and then redirect after the session has been destroyed. For this to work every outgoing link on your website will have to point to a script. Then you'll pass the redirect url or url id (that referse to a url in your database) through the link and redirect after session_destroy() has killed the session. The link can look like this: <a href="exit.php?url=http://www.thiersite.com">www.theirsite.com</a> The script will look something like this: <? // exit.php session_start(); session_destroy(); header("Location: ".$_POST['url']); ?> Keep in mind if you want to do this then the user will not be able to use his/her back button in order to return to your website unless you define an additional redirect in a conditional that states "if the session is not active then go here". Voodoo. *LOL* - Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Beauford.2002" <beauford.2002@rogers.com> To: "Ford, Mike [LSS]" <M.Ford@lmu.ac.uk>; "'Justin French'" <justin@indent.com.au>; "PHP General" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 12:56 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Sessions question > So is there anyway to do this - perl, javascript, voodo? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ford, Mike [LSS]" <M.Ford@lmu.ac.uk> > To: "'Justin French'" <justin@indent.com.au>; > "Beauford.2002" > <beauford.2002@rogers.com>; "PHP General" <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 11:04 AM > Subject: RE: [PHP] Sessions question > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Justin French [mailto:justin@indent.com.au] > > > Sent: 21 March 2003 15:59 > > > > > > on 22/03/03 2:27 AM, Beauford.2002 (beauford.2002@rogers.com) wrote: > > > > > > > What about cookies - someone said if you put no time limit > > > on a cookie it > > > > dies when you leave the site - I'm not sure about this, but > > > any help is > > > > appreciated. > > > > > > I think it's defined as "when the browser is closed", not > > > "when the browser > > > is no longer in your domain" > > > > That is correct. > > > > Cheers! > > > > Mike > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Mike Ford, Electronic Information Services Adviser, > > Learning Support Services, Learning & Information Services, > > JG125, James Graham Building, Leeds Metropolitan University, > > Beckett Park, LEEDS, LS6 3QS, United Kingdom > > Email: m.ford@lmu.ac.uk > > Tel: +44 113 283 2600 extn 4730 Fax: +44 113 283 3211 > > > > -- > > 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 > >